People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1894 — Ruin Rampant. [ARTICLE]

Ruin Rampant.

Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. I.—A spark from a passing locomotive started a fire in the large lumber yard of the Shevlin-Carpenter company on the west river bank Monday afternoon. It proved to be the third big blaze in the history of the city. It destroyed 25,000,000 feet of lumber, the office of the Shevlin-Carpenter company and twenty-five freight cars, the round-house, and the gas works of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway company. The loss is $500,000, and the insurance will amount to $350,000. The Omaha company is protected by a blanket insurance.