People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — BIG FIRE AT PEORIA, ILL. [ARTICLE]

BIG FIRE AT PEORIA, ILL.

Fosses Aggregating 8100,000 Are Sustained. Peoria, 111., March 20.—Fire broke out early this morning under the roof of the Dewein building, one of the oldest and the principal business structure of the city. The third story, containing lodge rooms of Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, and other orders, was burned out. Offices in the second story and the clothing stock of H. & N. Kreisman and the boot and shoe stock of J. P. Schnellbacher & Sons, in the first story, were damaged by water. A portion of the rear wall fell during the fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO, mostly insured.