Batch Room at Hemingray's caught fire

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BAD FIRE AT FACTORY

Batch Room at Hemingray’s

Slightly Damaged —

Discovered by Watchman

Timely discovery of a fire in the roof of the batch room of the Hemingray Glass Company, in South Macedonia avenue, about 10:40 o’clock last night probably prevented a great loss. The fire started from a defective flue and was burning briskly when it was dis­covered by a watchman. A large hole was burned in the roof around the flue and the loss was estimated at about $25.

The batch room is a frame structure more than 400 feet long and had the fire gotten a headway it would prob­ably have destroyed the building. Several tons of soda ash, sand and lime­stone are stored in this room.

Workmen laid a line of factory hose and sounded an alarm to the Central station at 10:45 o’clock. Firemen from the Central and Nos. 2 and 4 stations responded. It was some time before the fire was extinguished be­cause a tin roof covered the wooden roof that was afire.