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Show ' destroyed wore practically worthless leaving the slock or empty, used bottles bot-tles the only valuable property lost. The value of these would ranre some-wberr some-wberr between J2.000 and $3,000 at the most. The damask to the main buildings would not exceed a lew dollars. dol-lars. . 1 Hundreds Of people frorn the theaters the-aters were attracted to the fire. Vehicles Ve-hicles of mry kind were pressed into BtrvIceA . . . . ' FISE THREATENS BECKERHtEWERY A fire, which illuminated the northern north-ern portion of tho city, and attracted hundreds of spectators, broke out In an outside storehouse of Becker's Brewery at Lincoln avenue and Nine-teenUi Nine-teenUi street late last night. The storehouse which was used to store thousands of empty bottles, was only a flimsy structure and burned like tinder, spreading in u short time to a smaller structure, nearby, but. by the prompt and business like work of the firemen, tho flames were confined to these two structures, the main brick buildings of the brewery proper being undamaged, except for an occasional broken window. The flames, while they lasted, made a brilliant spectacle, making tho country coun-try thereabouts as light as at noon. Many nozzles were trained upon tho wooden buildings from the ground and from the roof of the main buildings, but It was impossible to prevent the destruction of the dry' material of which they were built. The bottles were almost entirely melted by the Intonse heat that prevailed pre-vailed during I ho short time of the blaze, and the melted glass dripped and trickled down throuch the piles, until the entire stock was made unfit for further use. Streams of water were poured during dur-ing the height of the conflagration upon up-on the main brick buildings to pre-cnt pre-cnt their catching fire, but this precaution pre-caution was not necessary, owing to Iho solid, fire-proof construction. The damage in dollars would be difficult to estimate. The buildings |