The farmers' union., 1894-07-12
RUIN AT THE FAIR.
SEVEN MAMMOTH STRUCTURES
SWEPT AWAY.
Aslmlni st rn.iOn's Golden Dome AMI Corona
Fall In [A>hc~-M Manufactures EuildinE
Hax xed to the Ground-I.arEe Portion Of
the Exposition Grounds devastated.
4 Sen Of Flsine.

4 Sea ~ Flame.
\ wear ago the Court of Honor of the /.
fair White City" stood N unrivaled
sprender upon the shore Cf Lake Mich /
ican. and thousands revcl,d in its
beauty. Thur day night il passed
away in fiery sp en- lor. and thousands
mourned it. fail ElacAened and
twisted arche, o: iron. with their grid
ers sagging under the weigh, of torn
sheets of roofing. reir their skeleton
forms where the buildings of the
beautiful city once stood. Beneath
them lie huge mo MS o. smol-
dcring ruins frost ID with waste
of snowy ashes. Tanglcs of wire
the mis- happen hulks OF fa.icn >tatuary
and long rows of b!i>,cred columns
mark the outli es of avenues and
drives. The pnap.tS. the TOR dyes.
and the wide sweep OF taircasing
which ranked the buildin y> have been
licked up by the tire 10 the waters
edge. Every ether at ack OF tie cle
ments. fire, wind. ,r wa,cr. wa, as
nothing b,.o,e this all-dev,u -inr tor
nado of flame which sw pt from end
to end and laid low every Important
building left STANDING hv the wiccker.
The Words air buildins are in
ruins.
Beginning with the huge weather.
leateu rem aims If the ter nina! station
at the sutth OF the grounds. the fire
sped rapidly noi til ward. and in the
course of its pc grcs> c. mpictc1y de-
strOyed the following structures:
Terminal Building.
Administration Building.
Mines and Mining.
Electricity.
Manufactures.
N;. .hin,ry.
A"ricu turc.
Stock Paw ion.
Ihilade phia Cafe.
Cne man los: his life in the flames
and another received burns fro which
he may die Besides these Il number
of persOn> received minor in uries.
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The tircmcn made no attclnpt to save
the buildings after they were once
abaze, but dcv. ted every effort to
prevent the fire. from spreading. The
transportation Il id go, ernment build
ings were saved only by the rnost fer-
sistent efforts of the iircmen At one
time it looked rs if all the buildings at
the north end of the grounds W, uld be
swept away. but a change of the wind
from the southwest to the northwest
prevented the flames fr.m adralcing.
\ dispatch from Chicago says that
a few minutes after o'clock lark TO
liceman John Reynolds saw two spirals
OF blue smoke curling la tilv upward
from a window in the southwestern
corner of the Terminal Building.
Hastcning over to the spot he burst
into the building through Il broken
door. \ sti!hnG gnst of >mohe rolled
ont. Penetrating t. tie center of the
building he law a point of flame
shoot upward from under Il staircase
in the corner Famed by the breeze
from the Op II DOR the whole end OF
the structure was Il mass of fame in
less than I. moment. Reynolds ran rap
IDLY across to machinery hall and
turned in an alarm. When he returned
the fire was playing hide-and-seek in
the ornamental cornices. Ii had not
yet felt its power. by some stra 1ge
fatality the crew Cf the Worlds Fair
station was mile away eXtinguishing
a little blaze at the corner of list street
and Stony Island avenue. 1t was a full
half hour after the ii st alarm sounded
before the first feeb e stream brOk ,
into spray at the caves Of the :all
building. 1t was too late. The fire
had found its power. The walls of
the terminal station which still re-
manned standing gaped wide with
cracks through which glOwed
the volca, Of fire within. The
flames lighted up Whitley the
faces of the thousands OF spectators
who came streaming out f the park
from every street. Some Of them
shouted Fire" Fire" At the top of
their voices. but t. ey could rot be
heard above the roar Of the flames.
The dry building with its lath and
staff roof and wooden girders burned
like finder. \ biliowv cloud Of smoke
arose slowly until the upper en- OF the
cloud rts nmbled huge Ia loon. the
top of which was trst Grim m,oned with
the rays of the setting sun. Suddenl,
the northern wall of the building fel
with a crash. and there was an iliumina
ii n of fireworks greater than any
that ever gra cd Il summer evenin.
during the Fair Nothing coIld sta,
the flames, and the swept on until al
the buildings in their fiery path were
in ruins.
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