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am IE II FI. DODGEOLESON DRUG CO- BURNSFire Started at S:00 a. m. by JSxplo- | elon of uan of Carbolic Acid-Cose! of S30,000 to Stock and *5,000 to ■ Building, jFort Dodge, Oct. 2.—[Special to Reporter.]—Fire this morning damaged the wholesale drug stock of Oleson Drag Co-nearly $30,000. The building was damaged about $5,000.The fire started about 8 o’clock in the basement of the drag store by an explosion of a can of carbolic acid. The blaze was quickly communicated to oils and the paint stock and for a time the three story block, one of the finest in the city, was threatened with entire destruction.The elevator shaft communicated the fire and smoke to the second and third stories so quickly that some women were imprisoned in living rooms on the third floor and were rescued from the balcony by firemen. ■ ..It required an hour and a half to get the fire under control, by which time the fifty thousand dollar stock was almost totally ruined by fire, smoks and water.The building was damaged $5,000. There is insurance of about $25,000 on the stock and $38,000 on the building.
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Semi Weekly Iowa State Reporter
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Fri, Oct 05, 1900
Page 6
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