Show fihe DEST ARMOUR PLANT SUFFERS ESTIMATED LOSS OF IN conflagration cold weather and L low OW water pressure hamper battle men frozen to hole hose lines As A they work omaha A tire fire fiercely burning and which Is declared by veteran packing men to be the moat most destructive tire fire in the history of america americal packing industry wednesday dee des troyed the nine etory story building buildings 17 IS 18 and 10 in the armour co a s plant in south omaha causing an in es timatea loss of at and throwing more than 1000 men temporarily out of work thursday morning twenty one tire fire companies under the direction of fire commissioner hopkins who has been on the scene since 8 wednesday morning were concentrating all efforts on the brick fire wall protecting building no 20 one of the lard refineries 0 cl gener gemeni il manager of the plant declared that the fire started in the ninth story of building 19 from a defective elevator motor early wednesday morning when the firemen reached the scene they experienced great difficulty in making water connections because of the subzero sub zero weather it was said low law pressure further hendred them in fighting the flames the streams barcly reaching the sixth story at times huge stocks of lard which melted and ran over the buildings like liquid nullified the efforts of at the firemen |