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Show Flra Skt Ontskrlo Mln. The No. 11 hoisting works of the On'ar-lo On'ar-lo oiupany, were destroyed eatly Monday Mon-day morning by fire. The aalriu wuplltsl given at 2:-l'i oMisk, and while theie were three men around the works at the time none of them knew where the tire hose was kept, and aa a result the (lames were beyond control belore a stream ol water could be turned on. Inside In-side ol an hour the main building, carpenter car-penter and blacksmith shops were reduced re-duced to a pile of pnio'..iig ruins, though the immense gallons Irauie colitin n-.l to burn for several hours longer. The origin of the (Ire may never la-known la-known to a certainly. The blae a discovered by William llenney. Llec-trie Llec-trie wires and a liotbox nn the engine are given at the probable cause. To estimate the lost would be Impossible, Impos-sible, but wbeu the building was put tip in 1KHJ and the great Cornish nuuip, iimgmlli'ieiit hoisting engine, m ini nolli compressor and oilier e'llipiiietit were installed it was given out olli. ia'ly thai the plant represented an outlay of 7V), ooo. These figures, nf course, would Include In-clude the iieavvexpeiipcol building the mammoth curbstone pita and f inii la-tiont la-tiont that accomodated the Cornish pumping plant, the Immense water column, col-umn, planner rods, liobpitr, etc., between be-tween the linface and the boil-foot level of thu n ine. At tins purti in of the plaut has long since been discarded and counted for little more than the value of the uieinl in it us scrap iron the loss wiil I fall lar bel .w thu figures given above. At the pioscnl time the No. II shall is dow n lo a depth of 2000 feet, or M0 leet below the level of the great drain tunnel. On the 1,6'tO 1,000, 1,701) end 2,X)-f ,ot levels there has been considerable work going on. tin the 1,700-fojt level three huge stiaiu pumps were employed Iu lilting the water to the 1.500 or drain i tunnel level. These pumps are all out of conitniss.nn. and the levelt below the 1,500 are rapidly tilling with water. The company has just completed Its flue new concentrator aud Ihls will have to sil'p. nd work for ihe tune beilie. About two hundred men will be ellected by the disaster and tint will o a certain extent eirect the town, On the whole this lire It one of the greatest calamltict that hat befallen I'ark Cliy for years. |