The herald., 1898-01-26

supplies East st. Louis with light, the
large smokestack was blown down, car
rying with it the main wires of the city
circuits, leaving the city in darkness.
In Belleville, ILL.,, many large smoke
stacks and chimneys were blown down
and there were numerous narrow es-
capes from death there and in East st.
Louis. The damage along the river was
comparatively slight, as there were but
few steamers in the harbor.
AT ST. JOSEPH
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Jan. 25.-The rain
that began to fall here last night, turned
to snow at o'clock this morning. The
fall from so o'clock was three inches.
Railroad traffic is delayed and street
railway traffic has been demoralized all
day. Many telegraph and telephone
wires are down.
IN IOWA
DUBUQUE, Ia, Jan. ga foot of
snow driven by a fierce wind has block
AIDED the railroads and demoralized tel
egraph, telephone and fire alarm sys-
TENS. During the storm a freight and
passenger train on the Manchester
branch of the Illinois Central collided.
Fireman Sweet of the passenger train
was killed. Engineer Harvey and Pos
tai Clerk McDuff were probably fatally
injured
IN WISCONSIN
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 25.--A furious
blizzard struck this city shortly before
noon and up to 1 o'clock two inches of
snow had fallen. Street cars are seri
ously delayed, and as the storm contin-
ues this afternoon it brought with it a |
complete tieup.
A FIERY SUPPLEMENT
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 25.-One of the most
disastrous fires experienced in East ST.
Louis in many years started at $3.50 to-
night in the Union elevator, the largest
building of its kind either here or in st.
Louis, and before it had burned itself
out property to the estimated value of
$1,O0O,OOO vas destroyed.
The elevator and contents, supposed
to be not far from 100000 bushels of
grain, the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy freight house adjoining, with ten
cars of merchandise, twenty-five cars
of corn and number of small dwellings
We're burned, together with the stables
of the st. Louis Transfer company.
The fire was discovered by the ele-
vator watchman some distance from the
engine room, and before he could turn
in an alarm the flames had got such a
start, being famed by strong north
west wind, that they soon enveloped :
the whole building. The elevator. which {
had a capacity of more than 100000
bushels, was about full of grain, the :
greater part being corn owned by st.
Louis men. This made an intensely hot
fire and was soon ablaze all over the {
strong wind sending sparks and burningI
embers for a quarter of mile. Beforc /
the fire had been burning an hour the
elevator and contents were doomed, and |
the flames had spread to the Burlington :
freight house on the south, about 500 {
feet long. All the fire apparatus in the I
city of East St. Louis was called to the
scene in addition to engines from St. q
Louis {
At midnight the fire was confined {
within the limits named, but it will be
many hours before it burns itself out /
The heaviest losers are the E. b. White +
Grain company, VIII Harstick Grain t
and the L. S. Elevator COM c
pany. 1t is impossible at this late hour c
to get a detailed estimate of the losses,
but it is thought they will foot up at t
least S1,O0O,O00. Insurance unobtain- I
able tonight. i