Springville Herald | 1925-10-25 | Page 2 | Explosion Wrecks Two Large Stills

EXPLOSION i WRECKS TWO LARGE STILLS Creosote Plant at Ironton Damaged by Heavy Blast Monday Evening Damages that may roach $5,000 were caused by a fire at the plaint of the Republic Creosote company near the Ironton plant of the Columbia Co-lumbia Steel company Monday even, ing about 7 o'clock. The fire was caused hy the explosion of two of the stills in the plant which bad became choked. Four men tending the plant during the night miraculously escaped injuries of any . kind n' though they were standing right by 'be stills at the time of the explosion. explo-sion. Coke and tnr were! seiit into the air more than 250 feet by the blast. The Provo fire department re-'sponded re-'sponded to the tall and assisted the i plant fcrce in putting the blaze under un-der control.