Battle Royal With The Flames

Chicago, Oct. 27.- Twenty-five flre encines and two steam flre tugs fought a battle royal with a big blaze on Goose Island at noon yesterday. The Pacific elevators, owned by the Chicago and Paciflc Elevator coinpany, wcre found to be on üre at 1 1 : 45 o'clock. The two elevators ivere destroyed, together with a nuraber of tmall frame buildings in the iramediate vicinity. Th loss is estiniated at. $1,600,. 000. The locality is ns dansrerous a cnnld bo selected for a big flre. The two Pacific elevators, A and B, we e we 1 filled with h-heat and of themselves would furnish material for a goodly conflagration. Directly to the north is the Armnur elevator, the largest in the world, stocked to the foof with grain. To the northeast is the immense malfcing house of Hale & Curtis, while within gunshot lie the coal shed and doek of tho Crescent Coal company, stocked with thousands of tons of bituminous coal. Lumber yards in the immediate vicimty offer f urther material for the spread of a blaze, in addition to which there are any number of frame cottages scattered around. The Paciflc elevator was omposed of three separate buildings, each six stori s in height, and the heat caused by the burning buildings was so intense that the firemen were unable to get within a block of the blaze. P. J. Perry, the grain superintendent of the elevator, said that there was over 1,000,000 bushels of wheat stored in two of the buildings, known as elevators A and B. Superintendent Perry also said the building was valued at $500,000, and is fully covered by insurance.