Deseret Evening News | 1904-02-11 | Page 7 | Oswego Corn Starch

OSWEGO ConN Great Factory In h it Made Destroyed by b Fire FIac Oswego Feb 11 Two firemen were Injured ono one In tho which practically ell tho large plant of at tho Corn Products company In this city causing an estimated loss 1088 of or ofU U John Dougherty a 1 truck man tell fell a l distance of at GO I feet teet break breaking Ins ing both of ot hla hili leg leH receiving r In Internal Injuries from which he died later Several other Were ere slightly burned and frost tro t bitten during battle with the tho flames The lire broke broko out at nt 4 p in yester yesterday day In the tho chemical department and spread rapidly to the several buildings which composed the tho plant U It burned until an on early hour thin morning Tho lames leaped tram from one building to another the tho Intervening affording no protection A large tock flock of or corn nn destroyed and n II quantity of ot starch was damaged hy by III and II nIl v The Tho buildings were erected by h Into lato Thomson u lL manufacturer and the thc plant had been In operation It pa Into the tho control of ot tho Corn Products company three years Carll ago ao and had Just reopened after Itter n a shutdown numbering nN thrown out of ot work thousand dollars were paM paid annually In wages