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 [dollar: $150,000]. There was [dollar: $75,000] insurance, divided in twenty-five different companies. Three hundred men are out of employment.

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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;