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Show STEEL PLANT BURNED Throe Million Dollar Fire in Ohio Town. ; Shelby. O., Jan. 20. The United States Steel corporation sustained ft $3,000,000 loss by fire tonight at the plant of the Shelby Steel Tube company. com-pany. The fire started in one of the smaller rooms from a defective electric wire and spread to the larger stock rooms, completely destroying them. The product of the entire plant for tho past six months was destroyed within an hour, consisting of 800,000 tons, making In all 25,000.000 feet of finished product, valued at S3.000.000. The lire broke out at D o'clock, and at 10 o'clock the immense buildings Ml In with a crash that could be heard for miles from the city. Battered and twisted, the finished product lies In a heap, almost a total loss. Tubo works ollicials state that a portion can be Avorked over, but it will require thc entire en-tire capacity of the plant and will delay de-lay the mills on other orders. The stock consisted mostly of locomotive loco-motive boiler Hues and other Government Govern-ment work of various kinds. The firo was confined to the stock buildings, which were built at an expense of 5100,000. Thc tubing manufactured by thc Shelbv plant was used extensively by the Government for boiler flues ln United States war vessels. The United States Government has been the best I customer of the local plant |