Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-04-15
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BIG FIRE mi FRANKLIN.
The PIaning-Mni of the Franklin Lumber
CompanY DestroTed.
Correspondents Of the RichnOnd DIspatcn.I

Correspondence Of the Richmond Dspatenl
FRASKIrs. VA, April 14.-This town was
visited by FIRE again yesterday eye s.lns:
About o'clock In the afternoon the peopio ~, " -
aroused by the blowing OF the alarm-whlste ~
the lumber-planing mill belonging 70 the fIaha,,
lin Lumber Company, located near the cage y.
the town and on the banks OF the black 49, 49,
river. II was at once seen that the cause OF tno
blowing waA that the planing-Inth was 90 IL ~.
Nearly everybody at once went 10 the mill, put
before any assistance could be renderssse 80 s
whole plant was in a blaze. Nothing coula naso
been Zone, however, had the whole Town y ~,
there when the FIRE first started, as the euclenIs
corps Of mill hands did all that any one o0uiu
have done.
The FIRE originated In the works above the
boilers and shaying-yault II was discoVereo IN
medately. and the hands at the mill az onco
went 10 WORK on il. Buckets Of water were pc
ing thrown ON Il, but seeing that this wouiu nos
do all that was necessary the manager ~ on-o
seized the hose and had tho pump starleu up
and in an Incredibly short time had a stream ~
water on the fire. In the heated etnospneis
and the in1ammable material that the IRE starle9
in II travelled like train Of powder, ana " hso
gotten into tho shaving-yault and DeyoDd WIZ
the men could not get the water 70 IL. IN asnVls
time the whole concern was wrapped m nalne,
and Ia a half hour the main building ha1
fallen In. The company had big stOca VI
manufactured lumber ON hand, and TINS hli,ss . =
tremendously bot fire. The dry-kilDs OF the COIL
pany stood about sixty feet 10 the east OF sne
mill, and Il took hard work to save them. Inc
pump and hose Of the company did spiehgle
work as long as the pump was supplied VIII
steam, but when the steam-pipes 70 the Dolers
broke the pump stopped, and the FIRE then nau
TO be fought with buckets until the town engine
could,be gotten In place 20 work, which was done
as soon as possible, though there was some oe-
lay in getting hose, the hose belonging 70 tne
town not being long enough 70 reach the nre'
TEE DRY KmSs SAVED.
Effort ON the part Of the men present, aided Dy
a proyidential wind, succeeded In saving the airy
kiins The total loss Of the company viii reach
$4,000, 900, on which there Is an insurance OF
s1O,500, all placed through Parker Faughns
agency, and divided among the different COM
panies and agencies a. follows: The Hartford, OF
Hartford, Conn, 81 900; the London and Lam
cashlre, OF England, $1,000, both with george
W. Dey & Son, Agents, Norfolk, Va; the queen,
Of England, 1000; the Liverpool ana LONDON
and Globe, $500: and the Virginia Flre ana
Marine OF Richmond, 81 800, with 5. X Bunn a
Co, Agents, Suffolk, Va; the htna, OF Hartford,
Conn, 81 800; the Gernan-American, OF New
York, $1,000, and the Commercial Union, OF
London, 81 200 with Harper q West, Agents,
Suffolk, Va; the Western, Of Toronto, OntH
81 900, and the Petersburg Savings and lnsu-
rance Company, Of Petersburg, Va, Sl,OOO'
THE LOSS
The lumber company's net loss win be about
aI2 500. IL Is understood that they VIII reDuild
considerable number Of people are thrown out
Of employment by the FIRE.
Mr.J. Z. MOyler, OF this place, who has been 70
baltimore, returned home on Saturday sick with
the grippe an reports a large number In that
city as down with that malady. tie is now I'M
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