Corinth Machinery Plant Burned
The W. T. Adams Machinery Company’s plant, covering a four-acre block in Corinth, Miss., was destroyed recently under conditions which baffled all fire-fighting efforts. The plant comprised a two-story brick pattern shop and four one-story shops of brick and wood. A tardy alarm was sent by the night engineer at 3 a. m., when volunteer firemen and citizens braved the severe weather to find frozen hydrants and a fire beyond control swept by a high wind from building to building. It started in the engine room and power plant in the interior of the plant, and in less than an hour building, tools and patterns were in ruins, entailing a total loss of $150,000. R. L. Young, fire chief, succeeded in getting two good hydrant streams connected, laying 500 feet of hose. Three 4 and 6-inch single and double hydrants stood 200 feet apart. With no apparatus whatever or other equipment, all chanceof results was lacking.
The W. T. Adams Machinery Company’s plant, covering a four-acre block in Corinth, Miss., was destroyed recently under conditions which baffled all fire-fighting efforts. The plant comprised a two-story brick pattern shop and four one-story shops of brick and wood. A tardy alarm was sent by the night engineer at 3 a. m., when volunteer firemen and citizens braved the severe weather to find frozen hydrants and a fire beyond control swept by a high wind from building to building. It started in the engine room and power plant in the interior of the plant, and in less than an hour building, tools and patterns were in ruins, entailing a total loss of $150,000. R. L. Young, fire chief, succeeded in getting two good hydrant streams connected, laying 500 feet of hose. Three 4 and 6-inch single and double hydrants stood 200 feet apart. With no apparatus whatever or other equipment, all chanceof results was lacking.
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