Show QUARTER OF A MILLION LOSS IN PROPERTY express companies pullman company and fred harvey company heavy losers kansas city jan 13 the union station annex in union avenue adjoining the union railway station was destroyed by fire early union station proper one of kansas cites landmarks was saved bythe firemen after a hard fight the burned building contained the receiving of flees of the adams wells fargo and pacino express companies s branch mailing room of the the offices of the fred harvey eating house company the pullman palace car companas comp anys linen room and the railway mens yr M C A the losa Is estimated at close to of a million dollars the building wag two stories in height and one hundred and eighty feet in length running from santa fe street cast along union avenue to within feet of the main portion of the station ahe alro started at 4 from crossed electric light wires over the registry department of the mailing room the fire burned furiously and for a time threatened the of the station and sheds used by twenty different railways and to spread to several hotels across unon avenue and into the wholesale district the fire spread with such rapidity that the firemen were unable to save but sacks of common mail and a small portion of express matter thirty five sacks of registered and some other mall matter were doa Bt royed together with a great number of express packages a large supply of linen in the pullman rooms the entire contents of the fred harboy offices which was alie headquarters for that companas comp anys system and teh library furnishings nish ings and apparatus in the Y M C A rooms were destroyed the Y M 0 A quarters had been partially furnished by miss helen gould the building and heating plant were owned by the union station company whose loss is placed at the fred harvey companas comp anys loss is 50 it is difficult to accurately estimate tho loss of the express companies the government the pullman company and the christian association which however will it is be cleved bring the total loss to |