Five Years After Train Disaster, Fire Hits Missouri Business

Misfortune has struck again for a Parkville building owner and one of his tenants.

Just as they did back when a coal train derailed in April 1999, Dani Henley and Danny Tinsley are again trying to rebound from a calamity.

This time, it was a Thursday night fire that gutted Tinsley's building at 110 Main St., in the heart of Parkville's downtown shopping district. Henley's Garden Goddess gallery was obliterated by the train derailment; now it's been destroyed by fire.

The blaze so heavily damaged the building that investigators from the Southern Platte Fire Protection District were unable to determine a cause, spokesman Greg Laslo said Monday. Investigators estimated the damage to be about $500,000.