[Newspaper]
Publication: The Fairmount News
Fairmount, IN, United States
vol. 15, no. 29, p. 4, col. 2
Muncie Factories Burn.
The most distructive [sic] destructive fire that ever occurred in Muncie was the burning of the C.H. Over window-glass-works and the Himingrary [sic] Hemingray flint-glass factory Saturday, entailing a loss of over $200,000. While a Lake Erie & Western switch-engine was doing some work on the track between the two big factories a spark from the engine ignited a car-load of packing straw, and soon after the engine departed the flames burst out. A warehouse near by caught fire, and from there each of the big factories was fired, and in just forty-five minutes each was a mass of ruins, and over three hundred employes out of work. The buildings were of sheet-iron and wood, and burned with great rapidity, leaving nothing but brick, iron and molten glass.
