Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-09-10
EARLY GRAIN AND ELEVATOR
Co. HAS HEAVY FIRE Loss
Ilamss Eat - More Than 900 Tons
~ Hay Entailing Total io--
Df so 900

90, Early Grain q Eaeyainr co..
ffarrd lra Io h.f nIrhf ,la.
srufsa5 estimated 90 fItWn
. shrn their large HDnR, building a'
. 1000 Johns street na. burned to
ina sr1uud The building contained
about 1.D fun. 0I ba. tHirl $500 boz
o. toial joss
Tho alarm tu turned u .orIf
before clock anI fne department
responded promptly but BE- via. .m
/ go .hIr 200 save either thr building
1f contents
Tho Nr. was fh. result of .p0n
iuIrDIH combustion
$50 one bad been Boo the building
. since % week aRn yesterday tnd there
+ fa. poo chance fYr anyone tD nave
gotten where fbe fire started vifh
. % cigar pr cigarette. or for q spark
fu have been carried there
Che building Ra. about 1ltI25
ierf and Is almost entirely filled
n.th haF mostly alfalfa There
we're ipH cirlolds OF mIlIet and
% few carload uf Johnson grass
puIf iul, pace Bro mo building
"a. Irf untitled. probably a ufn
'Irni pace Zoo hold from tv0 200 five
rar.U1d.
About uiusi} rive carloads of hay
"rfr said tD tage been 100 fhr build
Iuf pr something near $50 tons
IHs hay b. nov selling at from
1880 fo flt 900 per ton
Mr. Early h1d gone 10 plauvirw
on business yesterday morning but
Rl0 notified 0f the tire sbon after
the alarm The figures given above
as accurate 90. could be obtained last
nighi
The building was stacked 200 mu
mat not even pa ssaRo ways we're
l"n through n Two pair of paIcs
an elevator. a runaway aud truck
we're among me other things that
went up iu the smoke
The building had ronrf.i. and
brick wall ON tho gDufh .iIt newt
Go the elevator a part 0f tH. sail
nemrd tu be- tuc only salvage that
would be- of value at % pt, hour
be- niEht
A. least 5000 peopl. vent tu th,
fire aud many more watched fb,
flames from their home. boz BrIuu.
parts of the city 900, crowd was
thr largest about in hour after fhp
alarm The fro burned 900 night
aud people came and sent 200 bate
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Ing quite an Increased business
result;
The 0rat man 90 discover lhc fire
ana turn in tho alarm stated that
ne first saw what SEEMED Coo Ip %
plfI of dust come from fhp windows
high up uu The NDs' end Up turn
ed iu the alarm aud hurried ip tho
building. q foN hundred feet away
The galvanized iron IdiuF STATS ul
ready red with heat
The flames Dad not break ont OF
The building much. uu after thr ar
rival of the tire department bat by
tIai tim. tho Flames had .prpad
throughout ih, bui,dlur and mo- fire
department 900 the country hardly
could have prevented total loss
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