People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Large Grain Elevator Burned. [ARTICLE]

Large Grain Elevator Burned.

Minneapolis, Minn., March 3.—Elevator A 2, owned by the Mineapolis Terminal Elevator company, operated by G. W Vandusen & Co., burned Monday. The fire caught in the stair tower in some unknown manner and quickly spread through the building. There were 1,075,000 bushels of wheat in the building, mostly No. 1 northern, worth about $600,000. The sprouts were opened and a great quantity ran out on the ground. The building cost $250,000. making the loss in the neighborhood of $750,000.