People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Heavy Loss by Fire in Denver. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Loss by Fire in Denver.

Denver, Col., Aug. 1&. —A fire which started shortly after noon Monday totally destroyed the Crescent flour mill and elevator at Stanton avenue and Montgomery street. The total loss, including a large quantity of flour in sacks and grain in the elevator, will foot up from $250,000 to $500,000. The insurance is about 75 per cent, of the loss. During the fire Lieut. McLean was terribly injured by an explosion in the dustroom of the mill and may die. F. Sargeant, Chief Pearse's driver, had an arm broken by being forced from the roof by a stream of water from the fire hose.