People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — FIRE IN CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

FIRE IN CHICAGO.

A Big Warehouse and Several Dwelling* Are Destroyed. Chicago, Feb. 3.—The big five-story brick warehouse of Felix & Marston, wholesale dealers in wooden and willow ware, at Henry street and Stewart avenue, has been totally destroyed by fire and a number of lives were endangered. The building, which was 100 feet wide by 175 feet long, extending south half a block to West Fifteenth street, was valued at $60,000, and with the stock, estimated at 175,000, is a complete loss. Felix & Marston’s loss, aggregating $135,000, is covered by insurance. Three or four frame cottages owned by poor people were crushed to pieces by the falling walls of the warehouse, and hard work by the firemen barely prevented the flames from spreading toward Canal street William Snooks, who was caught on the second floor, where it is supposed the fire started, leaped to the street below and was internally injured. While standing at the window hesitating, the flames swooped down upon him and burned him badly about the head. He did not wait longer, but dropped 30 feet into the street, where he was picked up by the police and carried to his home at 649 Henry street.