Show r f COMPRESSOR PUNT PLANT t IS A TOTAL LOSS r I rI Bingham Butte Consolidated tec Company Loses 1 in Blaze OTHER PROPERTY SAVED 1 A I Lumber Yard and Terrace Cause Threatened Cause of Th Fire V. V Unknown Jalo I nev Republican Special Service Bingham Bl March arch A A disastrous disastrous- l J r r- r fl fire r broke out In the Bin Bingham Bingha ham C Consolidated Mine company's corn com compressor 1 t- t p building jU just t t east Cast OC of the Dingham Ding Bing ham Coal and Lumber company's y at 30 this morning morning completely complete complete- complete complete- I ly 1 destroying tho building and wrecking wreck r ing ithe In-ithe the plant Tho The blaze under was full cun headway I and past control when the alarm was soun sounded led by the night watchman It In I I I lower tho-lower part o of or town lh The fire department de- de responded ed promptly am I Ir r I succeeded b by ht heroic efforts In preventing pre pre- I venting any further spreading of the flames lainEs A strong breeze the flames aWa away from Crom the lumber yard rard and LUdI a a. terrace about 20 O feet teet away awa- otherwise It would have o swept the whole yard besides wiping wiping- out the lower part of or town 1 The firemen hid to exorcise o the I utmost t care In fighting the tho flames on acco account nt of a power line 20 O feet aw away awa Car carving volts l' l Th The comple compressor sor was a n new building J j put up b by t the J lC company compan The origin of or the fire e l Is not pot t S known The rhe Copper Belt Delt railroad rail rail- 4 road runs past the plant on the east enst and as fiS nn ran rail past tho plant plan planta VII it a little before beCore the blaze tile the theory is V that t It was caused 11 by a cinder falling afling from coin the smoke stack Another Is that thai it H tool took fire somewhere about the boiler bollet S 1 Superintendent George Georgo er p states that the building plant a and nIl nfl fillIs 4 Is a Do total loss Ios that the holler boiler may bo ho bolit I lit in condition to th be lie repaired but that S he ho Isn't sure suro about that He lie estimates estimates esti cat mates matea the tho lo loss s at No o I I ant ac on the property A fire tire in the lumber yard was narrowly narrowly nar nar- rowl averted by ly the prompt and ef cf- cf work of or the local fire depart depart- m ment nt A fire swept the lumber lumber lum lum- lam U ber her yard rard three years jears ago |