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Show B. C. Woolen Mills Destroyed by Fire, (From Box Elder News.) The Brigham City Woolen Mills building was completely destroyed by fire Tuesday forenoon. The fire is supposed to have start cd from n spark caused by the machine ma-chine used for making cotton and wool bats, owned by Mr. John Anderson And-erson and run by Frank MlnBon. It was kown that such a thing might happen and a bucket or two of water wat-er was kept constantly on hand In case of emergency, but this time It got the best of them. The machine which tears up the rags from which tho bats arc made revolves very rap-Idly rap-Idly and if the teeth come In contact con-tact with any metal, like a nnll or n ncedlo for Instance, It Is likely to spark, and If a spark touches those bats they burn like powder. The alarm was sourded promptly nnd the boys responded as readily, but there nre no water mains In that vicinity and they had no engine or pump, bo were powerless to check the flames which spread rapidly to all parts of the building. It was tho biggest and hottest fire we were ever permitted to see. Mr. Mlnson, who was running the machine worked so hard to put out the fire and save some of the property pro-perty that he became exhausted and had to be helped to a placo of safety. His condition was so serious that a doctor was sent for, Drs. Harding & Harding responding. His heart threatened thr-eatened at one time to stop and restoratives re-storatives had to bo applied. He la Btlll badly unstrung. Tho building was owned by the Brigham City Woolen Mills company, a corporation composed principally of local people. They lost heavily as the building carried no Insurance. Tho Brigham City Shoo Company, also composed principally of local people were losers to a considerable extent. That Is, three of the stockholders stock-holders were. Messrs. J. D. Call, S. N. Lee and Joseph Jensen of Garland, recently assumed the entire burden of the concern taking over the machinery, ma-chinery, and this machinery was all In the building. Mr. John Anderson's loss will perhaps per-haps not exceed $1000. He carried $800 Insurance on the machinery. He had about $700 worth of rags on hand and about $300 worth of bats on which there was no Insurance. A good many of the rags were saved, but the bats went with the rest. This Is the second fire that has oc. currcd on this Identical site. Just 30 years ago the 20th of next December, De-cember, the first woolen mills erected erect-ed in this city burned to tho ground. It was also a total loss. The present building was put soon afterwards and was a magnificent structure a credit cre-dit to the city. |