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Show A Big Saw-Mill Burned. BatCttt, Michigan, December 3. At 11 o'clock last night, a fire broke out in the McGram saw-mill. The . wind blowing lightly from from the west carried the fire to the main building of the mill, which soon became a mass of seething flames. . The firemen saw the mill must be consumed, and directed their attention to keeping the fire from spreading, and by strenuous efforts confined the conflagration ' to the mill property and the adjoining tramways. At 1 o'clock the mill was in ruins. It was located at the extreme south end of the Saginaw ' Kiver. At the time of its erection, in 1873, it was the largest concern of the kind in the world. Loss, $150,C:3; on which there is an insurance of $1CD,CC0. |