The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-03-23
MANY FIRES.
Much Property Goes Up in Smoke
and Flame.
4 Destructive Ire At Kansas Ctty-Also 1t
Toledo and Cievsasod-Printing OF.
Gee Plants SuRsr Serious Loss
Other Coansgrations-



KANSAS Cry. Mo-, March 15.-While
. bitter cold wind was blowing from
the north last evening q 6re broke out
in the four-story building Of the Eng
lish Supply & Engine Co. at 40, 4l2
and Ala West Fifth street and burned
for one hour and thirty minutes with
incredible fury. When the FIRE had
spent its force two magnificent brick
buildings were smouldering ruins and
property to the value of S242 900 had
been destroyed. The 6re started At
SEQ o'clock. 1t was under control At
o'clock. The flames from the English
supply Co.'S building communicated
with the four-story brick occupied
by the Great Western type foundry
and the Western Newspaper union, and
thirty minutes later the walls of both
buildings began to fall The flames
leaped 100 feet in the air, and burning
brands were showered over the north
end, threatening to destroy that por-
tion of the town. Adjoining buildings
were set fire by burning brands, but
were cxtiuguished before any damage
had been done.
The total loss was about &34O. 900;
and the total insurance was $4,000.
Al Toledo.
TOLEDO, o., March lathe round
house of the Wabash Railroad Co. In
this city, located at the foot of south
street, on the dock front. burned to
the ground yesterday morning. Three
quarters of an hour after the first
alarm was sent in the southwest wall
of the builoing, 90 feet in circumfer-
ence, fell in burying twelve men under
meath it. Two Of them were instantly
killed, n third died . short time after
being taken out Of the debris and the
others were all badly hurt, one proba-
bly, fatally. All but one were employees
of the Wabash.
The fremeu had q stubborn fight
with the doomed roundhouse, the
heavy wind greatly aiding the stub
born flames At noon the fire was
practically under control, after de-
stroying all that was inhammable of
the building. The property loss ID es-
timated at $4,000 The roundhouse,
which had . capacity Of twenty loco
motives, contained only six engines
and these are all badly damaged. A
Wheeling L. Lake Erie coal car and a
Baltimore 4 Ohio box car We're con-
sumed.
Newspaper piaat Destroyed.
CLEVELAND, O., March 1S.--The Worth
| ington block, at the corner of Ontario
and Noble streets, occupied by the
World (newspaper) plant and the A. N.
Kellogg Newspaper Co., was entirely
destroyed by fire soon after o'clock
| yesterday evening. The building was
| Of brick and five stories in height
The basement and second floor were
occupied by the Kellogg Newspaper
Co., with composing and stereotyping
plant, while the World occupied the
first and fifth floors. On the third
fioor WAS the Clanin Manufacturing
Co., makers of light hardware, and on
the fourth hoo- was the Bandau Broth
ers Passementerie Co., manufacturers
Of dress and cloak trimmings.
| The loss on the building Is estimated
at $40 600 with $40, 900 insurance. The
loss of the Cleveland World is placed
at $50, 900 with $40, 900 insurance. The
Kellogg Newspaper Co.'S loss Is Sal ,OOt
and the insurance sei, 600 The Clafiir
Manufacturing Co. and Bandau Broth
ers' lose about SO. 600 each, which 10 in
sured. The cause of the fire Is . mys
terry. An explosion, probably caused
by gasoline. occurred soon after the
fire started, causing quite q little ex
element
Innrmary Burned.
MMLERsBURo, O., March l9.-Ths
Holmes county infirmary, near thi.
| nlnce burned Yesterday morning caus