Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-25 | Page 1 | Incendiary Fire Rages at Lima, Ohio

QUEEN WILH-ELMINA of Holland, who has withdrawn with-drawn her minister from Berlin Ber-lin following demands made by the German government that Holland virtually become be-come an ally of Germany. j : : EMM FIRE RAGES ATUMfl, OHIO Three Firemen Trapped by Falling Walls Escape With Slight Burns, II"MA, " Ohio, April 24. Three fires, breaking out simultaneously in the Lake Krio & Western shops here last night, had practically wiped out the $500,000 plant and were still raging, early' this morning. Water pressure "has been cut at some unknown point, while federal agents report re-port that hose was cut in two places with a knife. One man Is being held by the police. One fireman Is In the hospital unconscious, uncon-scious, a workman is seriously injured. Fir Chief John Mack is badly cut and several others injured. Another (Ire, breaking out in a distant part of town, is still burning. Homes of several foreigners are reported afire. The railroad shop fire followed a blaze at the same place two hours earlier in tho evening. Later, railroad officials say, flames were dlsuovrcd at three different places in tho plant. They spread rapidly. Ten to fourteen locomotives, urgently needed in war work; a new train of troop coaches, Ju.t completed in the shops, and many other coaches, as well as a score or more of box cais. were destroyed. Ten thousand dollars' worth of Liberty bond subscriptions were burned in the office of tho shops Three firemen who were missing for more than an hour, after being trapped in by falling walls, dashed through the surrounding flames early this morning and escaped with only slight burns.