Show chief con fire does but little damage 0 re the entire surface works at attle tie the chief cons mine nar rowIN oscap ed distinction des desti notion bv alre on tuesday morning the fire started in the of the bu iding the boilers and spread to other parts of the shaft house the alarm was turned in and within a few minutes several hundred people were at the mine ready to assist in pattii g gout out t the be blaze at first it looked like a hope hopeless legs task because there was mai something wrong with the water pipes but the men from the mine and others who iv he volun leered their services managed to keep the flames down somewhat until the proper water connection was made and then it aas a not dot a difficult task to thoroughly extinguish the blaze with the shaft house burning in number of places and the hot t ir tr from the roof g d down u 0 ou him eng neer james avi williams I 1 ila s ke kept the ei gine going and wl I 1 lie I 1 e mai ma ager er walter nalter fitch those who he were fighting the fire bupt cecil fitch and foreman joseph hannifan hastily directed the hoisting of the men from the various levels of the j mine the last cage load of men was landed at ti the ie surface j a 3 those who were fighting the flames got thu thit ge gs dundei control I 1 there was no wind on tuesday morning and bad had there been it is doubtful ul if it m hav e he it possible ble to ha hai e saved any an art f the tile arf ice I 1 maiks moils at this rr ry me 1 in conversation conver bation with ith the tile I 1 f representative imm after the fire manager falter pitch f itch stated f that the chief cons colls com company rani s loss losi U nid uld not be heal hea 3 as only the builds g was damaged the machinery being uninjured the building i IQ kiil i t temporary structure as the C CI iet lei cons is now piel aring to instill a modern in every respect it eluding a fire proof shaft house an all I 1 entirely new machinery managed fitch wishes to express hie its ap precia tion of the splendid work performed by those who volunteered their ser icea ices in fighting the fire 11 bile hile it would be possible to mention many man names in tl ti is respect we refrain from doing 40 for the reason that w we e might unintentionally unintentional 0 nit sonic some of the most deserving within ishm an hour after ta tie e fire had ti been extinguished the men were mere at work as usual underground something over a year ago the en tire plant at the ch ef cons including 4 buildings machinery etc was destroyed by fire and conRi considering dering the the company has sustained and the narrow escape of thas week weel manager fitch haa has decided that the new shaft house v will ill be as near fire proof as it is possible to make it |