Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1898 — Fire in St. Louis. [ARTICLE]

Fire in St. Louis.

St. Louis, April 25.—The four-story building occupied by the Great Western Printing company, at 511 and 513 Market street, was gutted by fire Sunday night, the loss amounting to sflo,000, with $40,000 insurance. The building contained 12 modern printing presses and two lithographing presses and the greatest amount of wooden type west of the Mississippi river. The Laclede and Imperial hotels, situated near by, caught on fire, but the blazes were extinguished without damage.