Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1910 — $300,000 FIRE IN CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

$300,000 FIRE IN CHICAGO.

One Woman Perhaps Fatally Burned When Homes Are Destroyed. Chicago, July 25.—Damages amounting-to $300,000 resulted in three fires here yesterday. Flames swept through a half block of homes in Lakeview, wiping out twenty buildings. The Cragin grain elevator of the Northwestern Malt and Grain Company was burned to the ground and the plant of the C. F. Orgen Brewing Company was destroyed. The heaviest individual damage, $150,000, was suffered by live Northwestern Malt and Grain Company. Mrs. Gustave Witts was perhaps burned in the Lakeview fire and two firemen were injured at the Cragin elevator fire.