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Show A FACTORY FIRE. A Beet Shed Partly f - " 1 ' Destroyed. t ' ' jfMOTHER-BEEIS ARE SPOILED. ' "" Four Tons of Sulphur in the ",- i '" ' Blaze 7 ' ' . V Early 6n Monday morning the citizens I'V- ' were Manned bythefire nlnrm being '" jrung and many got up; and looked around but could sco no eign of fire but those in the east part 'of the city saw it ,.- ' wos at the eugur factory. A short time ' ' ' ' previous the night watchman, Charles t,. v .;' "VVoodhoube, had noticed a lire in ono of P' .' ; tho beet sheds and found a hole about 8 largo as u wagon wheel burned in the ' ' .floor. Ho teized a shovel and began Y ' ' ''throwing sand on it. Being nearly !.'' (8i)Q'ocated with smoke ho. stepped back ahd-went through tha floor. Tliis gave . 'adraft to the fire and thu flames shot up from the floor. lie got out and hu ll mediately raised nil alarm . Shortly all I . the men' at the factory were out, and Messrs. Granger, Austin and Ingalls f , -were soon pn the scene. Tho fire caught !'' the old sacks arid car covers and burned ilercly but soon tho roof fell in and partly smothered the lire. A portion of the shed was chopped out so the fire t. could spread nofaithcr. It was soon smothered with dirt and snow. About , 4 tons of sulphur was stored in the shed I ' amUhis caught file, filling tho air with I , sulphur fumes. This was tho shed in Hi W&k. ' '.Lrt'' which tho ''mother" beets wero stored jR'I'jl'SPl Wx ;-c"nd',niUny weroduBtrpyedrTheroa r'V- "Ss and fire will likely ruin 40 per cenibf t, ' them ho there will not ba over 15 or 18 '... tons to set out next spring. ; Tho fire was caused from fires used to f ' -warm tho shed. It was found that the , t "beets wero freezing and fires wore built. Sfi ' , ' Tliese were made in boxes 5 feet Bquaro , filled witli ten inches oi sand. On V " Saturday it was found that the fire had f ' got through one box and burned a small . J hole in tho floor. The boxes wore then ' . taken out and the fire in the floor put - ' - out or puposed to bs, a man crawling ? along the flume to seo there wuh no fire : ' under the floor. There must have been I.- a spark smouldtring which caused tho '' - firo twenty hot rs afterwards. About 225 feet of the shed was a destroyed . It was tho intention of the " company to rebuild this shed in tho spring as thu lumber in it was rotten. The new Bhed will be different from tho others, being higher and will have doors ', wV , on the sides instead of tho top. The T , '-'. ,i "., m floor will be laid with a half pitch,slopo --' ' so the beats will roll into tho Hume. ; Two men can .then supply the beets ; i instead of four as heretofore employedi y ' '' (. A now shed will be built for Btoring '" ' mother beets. This will likely be erected on the sido hill just not th of their iarm house up tho creek. Manager Cutler wishes to thank those citizenB who assisted in extinguishing the fire. , ' . |