Hemingray Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana

1892 Fire

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Chicago Tribune

Chicago, IL, United States
vol. LI, no. 171, p. 4, col. 6

HEMINGRAY'S ENTIRE PLANT BURNED.

Fire Destroys the Muncie Bottle and Window-Glass Establishment.

Muncie, Ind., June 18. - [Special.] - Today fire destroyed Hemingray's bottle manufacturing establishment and oven window-glass house, entailing an aggregate loss of $150,000. There was $75,000 insurance, divided in twenty-five different companies. Three hundred men are out of employment.

Keywords:	Hemingray Glass Company : Fire
Researcher notes:	The C. H. Over window glass factory burned along with the Hemingray Glass Company; not the "oven" window-glass house.
Supplemental information:
Researcher:	Bob Stahr
Date completed:	January 6, 2005 by: Glenn Drummond;