Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1898 — Fire In St. Louis. [ARTICLE]

Fire In St. Louis.

St. Louis, Aug. 8. —The plant of the St. Louis Dressed Beef & Provision company, located «n the Missouri Pacific railway tracks between Manchester road and Gratiot strent. was parfiy destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. The cattle sheds, hide house, sausage room, pork cooler nnd fertilizer building were destroyed. The total damage being $56,000; fully insured.