Hemingray Glass Company

OFFICE BURNS,

LOSS IS $10,000.

Recent Records of Hemingray

Glass Company Not Damaged

in Fire.

More than $10,000 damage resulted from fire in the office building of the Hemingray Glass Manufacturing Company, near Macedonia avenue and Ninth streets, at 5:38 o'clock yesterday morning. The Company established temporary offices in the rooms recently occupied by the Muncie Savings and Loan Company at High and Adams streets. The loss was covered by insurance.

Though the interior of the building was badly damaged the building proper was saved. Recent records of the glass company were stored in metal cabinets and were not damaged but older files together with those of the 335th Infantry Brigade of the Reserve Corps were stored on the third floor and burned. Firemen were endangered by exploding ammunition which had been stored in the army office.

Started in Basement.

Charles Brown, 800 South Vine street, the factory watchman, said he was in the building and fired a boiler in the basement, which is believe to have started the fire, about 5 o'clock. The blaze was discovered a few minutes later in the basement. The plant fireman tried to fight the blaze for a few minutes then called the city firemen.

From the basement, the fire burned upwards through partitions to the attic where it "mushroomed" against a slate roof which threw the blaze down on top of the hose crews battling inside the building. Fire was leaping through every room in the building when the trucks arrived. Four lines of hose were used.

Two truck drivers were arrested by the police for running over fire hose in use at the blaze They are Thurwald Symmes, of Muncie, and Fred Wiggins, 111 West Seymour street. They will be arraigned in City Court today on a violation of city ordinance.