Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — FIRE AT MINNEAPOLIS. [ARTICLE]

FIRE AT MINNEAPOLIS.

The Security Warehouse Destroyed— Loss *>500,000. Minneapolis, (Minn.) special: Th® biggest fire that has occurred in the Floor Cltv since the burning of the ,Tribune building, Noy. 30, completely destroyed the Security warehouse with its contents, entailing a loss of &500,000. The blaze was communicated to the larm machinery house of Deere & Co. The flames gathered strength with the flying minutes. The walls of the warehouse fell with a great crash-and the blaze mounted high in the air. “Thero are sixty barrels of oil in the basement,” said one of the owners. As he spoke there was visible evidence of it as tho flames leaped upward In great angry tongues. Suddenly the wind veered and carried, the sparks and heat diagonally across tho corner to the Cooper Block, occupied by O. W. .lones, the Smith Wagon company, Linscy Bros., and the Blue Gras company. At 4:15 tho north s'.do wai. of the warehouse was seen to waver. A shout went up from tho throats of watc^Ml.<rtlousands as it trembled and then*ilfflij»Btward with a resounding : crash. it lay a tittle stone 1 structurehad been used as a boardirife HiilgßfeA. donso cloud of the black<-t smoke vjftsp. hiding from view the firemen, thte building, and everything. When it cleared away tho stone house had utterly disappeared, j