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Show ENGINE WORKS WIPED OUT Heroules "Works in San Francisco Suffers Severe Loss, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. Tho Hercules Her-cules Gas Englno works at 15-131 Bay street wcro wiped out by fire today, nnd the loss entailed Ib between $150,000 and $200,00Q, a greater part of which Is covered by Insurance. Flames broko out In tho pattern room. ' The theorv of ono of the employes of tho engine works Is that tho fire wa causod through spontaneous combustion or through a defective electric wiring. Five new cnslnes. worth about $10,000 aploce. and which had Just been successfully success-fully tested tho day before, woro completely com-pletely destroyed. Many other machines, even more costly, wero rducod to scrap Iron. |