Hemingray factory burns
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[Newspaper] Publication: The Daily Inter Ocean Chicago, IL, United States |
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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
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