The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-01-03
The Chronicles Fall Report.

Last Friday was an eventful day in Two
Rivers. The mammoth wooden ware factory
of the Two rsMannfaeturing Company,
which has been twice consumed by FIRE, was
discovered to be again in flames, about tive
O'Clock IN the afternoon, and Immediately
this usually quiet village was transformed
into scene Of wild excitement and cOniu-
sion. The amount property at stake and
the number of operatives, Zone hundred or
more) who depend en- their WORK ir the
/ factory fer support, tended TO add TO the
general constern alton; but 1t was not long
before cur citizens recovered their self pos
session and set themselves vigorously to the
task of qnenching the flames. When the
smoke and flames were first seen issuing
from the west end of the huge building, the
resident owners, knowing the lntlammable
nature of the structure and its contents,
gave up all hopes of stopping the progress
of the ire; but the boys of the fire depart
ment got their engine into position ard at
work in remarkably quick time, and the
! four streams from the powerful pump III
the fre-proof engine room of the factory
/ together with the two streams from the fire
! engine kept tn fire in check until the arrival
of a steamer from Manitowoc, when it was
! soon got under control and subdued. The
arrival of the steamer from Manitowoc was
none too soon. Had it come ten minutes
later the building would day be heap
| Of runs
As It is only the upper portion of the
saw-mi.l, about seventy feet of the roof Of
the main building and parts of the frame
near the west end are destroyed. With
the exception of the betting but little of the
machinery is injured, and the entire loss
cannot exceed $4dG0.
The fire started in room below the saw
mill, through which the main shaft passes.
1t was caused by the gas from pail of ben
zine, used in ceaning'the shaft, igniting
from lantern. Shortly after the fire broke
our, telegram was sent to the ManitowOc
! Fire Department, asking assistance. On
receipt of the telegram in Manitowoc fire
alarm was sounded to summon the Depart
ment, aud the new and powerful steamer,
\. D. Jones, was hurried to the depot, put
| ab card fiat ear and was soon rushing to
the rescue at the rate of forty miles an
hour 1t was something lass than fifty
minutes after the alarm was sounded ii,
| ManitOwoc, that the steamer was in POSI-
ton here and throwing water. We believe
there Is no quicker worl: on record.
The present factory building is a ma :
nifcent structure. Its dimensions are $50
by 70 feet and three stories high. Berg
the largest building Of the kind IN the
Northwest The factory has been twice
entirely consumed; but each time 1t was
rebuilt Oh larger and more magnificent
scale, and the one now standing is perfect
IN all its arrangements, and is 4 model of
architectural beauty although 1t i, just now
slightly defaced by the fire.
The work of restoring the burned parts
has already begun indeed, hardly had til,
smoke cleared away before a hundred hand,
were set at work removing the debris an"
charred timbers, and making other prepare
| tions for the speedy repa-ation CT the build,
ing. 1t is thought that the factory car
be put IN as complete state as ever with
in three weeks; already in the unimpaireG
| portions Of the factory the men car resume
wary