Show EXPlOSIONS EXPLOSION'S OF DUST CAUSE Of BIG Mill fIRE Flames Gut Three TO Top Floors of Monster Concrete Concrete Con Con- Con I I crete Olympic Cereal Cere l Plant in Oregon City I NARROW ESCAPE HAD BY THREE WORKMEN I Damage Estimated at Sixteen Fire Companies Companies Com Corn panics and Boats Called Out to Save Prop Property PORTLAND Ore March 22 By United Press Press Fire Fire caused by a a. series of ot dust explosions gutted the three top floors of at the monster six six- I story concrete Olympic cereal plant of the Portland Flouring mills here today to today to- to to-I to day resulting in damage estimated at I The first explosion came shortly r ratter after atter 6 By 7 o'clock the whole fourth floor loor was in flames and a general general general gen gen- I eral alarm had summoned sixteen fire r companies and both Portland fireboats to the scene The flames lames reached d their greatest intensity shortly after atter 8 o'clock firemen being seriously hampered hampered hampered ham ham- by a series of small explosions from rom accumulated dust In the conveyors convey convey- ors and the Intense heat The entire feed department of the mill was destroyed by fire and water Considerable stores of flour and rough grain were not touched The mill had been working full blast for severa several months and practically every storage compartment was filled with flour feed and other mill products I The three workmen who discovered the fire were barely able to fight their way through the seething mass of ot flames and reach safety Four firemen firemen fire fire- men were in considerable danger for a time when an aerial ladder swayed and snapped ben beneath ath their weight the men clinging to window ledges on the fifth floor flOOr ecI The was waa built In 1919 at a cost cost ot of The loss Ios lossis is entirely covered by insurance |