The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-19
WE'LL HAVE WATER TO-DAY.
The Gas and Water Company
Will Have a Pump at Work.
The Building Almost n Total wreck
The Rccently-Built Wing Suffers
Most-Thc New Pump Buhly Dam
aged = The Engineers Story of His
Narrow Escape.

aged = The Engineers Story of His
Narrow Escape.
1t is expected that under tho most
favorable conditions, both in doing the
necessary repairs on tho pumping
engine and finding no breaks heretofore
undiscovered, water will be again
turned on from one pump BY a. m.
today.
AS tho second pump is totally
wrecked it is certain that twill require
many days to repair the same. The
Water Company asks that water oe
used economically. as only onc-half the
capacity of the works can be used. and
all parties using boilers should be care
full to have them as cool as possible to
avoid too sudden contraction. Also
those having pipes disconnected should
have the same connected or plugged
Strenuous cXcrtions are beinr made
by the company to have the injured ma
chinery repaired and replaced. and the
machine shops at the Americ; Bridge
Works will be in operation all night en-
gagged in repairing the machinery for the
pump.
The pump that it is expected to have
running this evening is the old one
which was the least injured by the col
lapse of the building.
Tho loss" Mr.. Rawn said. will be
$1,000 or S6,O 600.
The loss on tho building is about
900 or $1,000 and the machinery is
| about the same.
at is very hard to estimate tho loss
as yet, on account of the machinery
being covered by debris from the roof
and walls. 1t may be that it VIII mount
up to $4,000"
The lower part of the city is being
supplied with water by the gravity sys-
ten. The pipes run from the spring
near the water works down through Pot
liquor'Tlais and onto the Roanoke Ma
chino Works, where two Worthington
engines pump the water into the tanks
in Woodland Park. Nv lhis system only
forty pounds - c can be gotten
ana water car. lpplied to places
above the levero. avenue south
west. ~--A
T,:::-,.USfr HOUSE Sv.n,'N.
Tho reporter visited the water works.
Although Il large force of hands had
been at work for some time in clearing
away the debris. the pump house. never
thclcsS, retained very much the appear
ancr Of Il total wreck
The entire south wall is down, with
the upper portions of the east and west
walls
Workmen had succeeded by vcstcr-
day afternoon in clearing away the
brick and all of the roof that had fallen
In, and it vas piled up in an immense
heap on the bank next the collapsed
wall.
The water works building is divided
into two portions by Il north and south
partition through the binding. In the
east room are the two large Gasliill
pumps, manufactured by the Holly
Manufacturing Company of l.ockport.
New York. In the west room are the
! three immense boilers made by the
( same company.
The pump and boiler nearest the
! south wall were put in Il year ago, when
| the building was enlarged by the south
| ern addition. 1t is this latter portion
of the works which is Il complete wreck,
the old building put up some four years
ago is still standing, though the plaster
ing is down and the roof leaking. In
this building is the old pump, which che
| company proposes to fix up by this
/ morning. 1t received the least damare,
/ its steam pipe connections being dam
aged more than the pump itself These
are being repaired.
THE MACHINERY INJURED.
The machinery badly damaged is thc
new pump and boiler. which were in the
southern part of tho building. These
pieces received the entire weight of the
roof.
The angle connections of the pumps.
which connect the right and left high
pressure cylinders together, are all
broken, as likewise the water guages on
the air chambers. The air pump to tho
air chambers is broken. too, and one
p.iming valve.
Men were at work while the reporter
was on the grounds cleaning debris
from the condcnsing engine pit.
1T will be some two or three weeks
before the new pump is at work again.
The feed pump to the boiler and the
water connections are not injured The
boilers arc also uninjurcd except for the
injury to the steam pipes, which happily
can be repaired in Roanoke. These are
very badly damaged.
PREPARING FOR REPAIRS.
l.. {. Fields, of Lockport. n. y, one
OF the attaches of the Holly Manufac-
turing Company, of that place, was in
the city yesterday morning making
drafts OF the broken machinery which
necessarily must be supplied from the
North. The machinery is tho angular
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