[Newspaper]
Publication: The Daily Inter Ocean
Chicago, IL, United States
vol. 21, no. 87, p. 6, col. 3-4
The Fire Record.
MUNCIE, Ind., June 18. — Special Telegram. — The greatest conflagration that ever occurred in Muncie wiped out of existence two large glass factories this morning, causing a loss of nearly $250,000. A spark from a Belt Railroad switching engine ignited some packing straw in a wareroom between the Hemingray flint glass factory and the C. H. Over window glass works, and both buildings were soon consumed. The fire department was useless, as the city waterworks mains are just being laid to the factory district. The Over factory moved here from Bellaire, Ohio, and employed nearly three hundred men. their loss on buildings and contents is $70,000; stock $60,000; total insurance, $13,000, in the following companies:
British America......................$2,000
Niagara.................................1,500
Sun Fire Office.......................2,750
Manchester............................2,000
Norwich Union.......................2,000
Michigan Fire and Marine........1,500
North British and Mercantile.....3,500
Fireman of Baltimore................1,200
Western ................................1,500
Traders'.................................2,000
German of Peoria...................1,000
St. Paul Fire and Marine..........1,200
Lancashire..............................2,500
Imperial..................................2,000
Home.....................................2,000
Evansville...............................2,000
Caledonia...............................1,000
Springfield Fire and Marine.......1,000
Indiana Underwriters...............2,000
Indiana of Fort Wayne.............1,000
Scottish Union.........................2,500
Reading...................................600
Hamburg-Bremen...................1,100.
State Investment.....................1,000.
The Hemingray factory was the finest flint glass works in the country, employing 200 hands, and owned by Robert Hemingray & Sons, who came here from Covington, Ky., where they now operate a factory. The loss on buildings and machinery is $90,000; stock $20,000, with $31,500 insurance in the following companies:
Norwich Union........................2,000
Manchester.............................2,750
Lancashire..............................3,000
British America.......................1,500
St. Paul Fire and Marine...........2,500
North British and Mercantile.....1,250
Springfield...............................1,000
Michigan Fire and Marine........ 1,000
Imperial..................................2,000
Hamburg Bremen...................1,100
Traders'..................................2,500
Sun ........................................2,500
Evansville...............................2,000
State Investment.....................1,000
Western.................................2,000
