The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-15
ne FIRE AT FREMONT
r.cife Manufacturing Com
pasy's Plant Damaged.
rlsEmEn SAVE THE MOST or IT.
1880 Barss Out In Sash and Door
rsesssy Compsny's Good
woyk-Loss Nearly 81 GOO.

M broke out between and 10 O'Clock
s - night IN the Pacific Manufacturing
= fLnssny's plant at Fremont, and made
"A glow in the sky that IL seemed n
Huueh the whole suburb Was ouinine nm.
nfsbs prompt action and energetic work
Hfe Fremont hose company the flames
s - confined to the sash and door fac
~. and the loss. which would have been
& r 90 If the whole plant had been burned.
vsiimited TO less than 81, 100.
he Pacific Manufacturing Compsuy's
4 INT located on Lake Union, consisted
h - msin mill with the greater part Of
& ~ mschinery, sash and door factory
nsnding back Of the big mill ard con-
pscsed With 1t by . bridge, . moulding
I ri and drying kiln. August a. last
faris Happier was appointed receiver and
~ mill ran up 70 about two weeks ago.
N order Of the court 1t wss TO have been
DA February "a to settle claims agRre-
psing about $l6. 00o.
John Payne. the night watchmsn. saws
list there has been no FIRE in the mill and
esnnot account in any manner for the
tsmes that Dir. Leaberg saw flashing from
ls rear OF the sash and door factory about
t6eiock. Payne Vas in the blacksmith
snop, some distance away, when he heard
~ whistle of the Fremont mill. At the
uscond whistle he came out and to his
surprise saw smoke coming from the sash
ID door building. INSIDE the two-story
wooden structure the flames were Ieaping
md dancing At merry rate. The whistle
sisFm called out the Fremont fire bril-
gsde In short order, and 1t 10 credited with
1ssing stream on in four minutes.
Az this time the inside of the building
sas roaring furnace, and at any moment
fhe moulding rack at the north aud the
bridge that ran to tho big mill might TALL
sittims TO the fire. Good work was being
tone In the direction of saving endangered
tuildings when the hose burst. This I'M
5areseen calamity occasioned loss Of time
end shortened the line considerably. As
soon rs possible the stream Was gotten on
asain and did good work in preventing the
flames from spanning the bridge and thus
reaching the big mill. When engines Nos.
sand reached the scene the fire was IN
DER control and the remaining work was
~ the direction Of saving the wharf,
DRY kiln and extinguishing the pile Of
glowing embers made by the falling build
Ing Each engine had on two streams, and
The work wac done quickly and thoroughly.
The loss will be confined entirely TO the
sash and door factory. the moulding rack
and the wharf, which Ii damaged in spots.
Following Ii an estimate OF the losses:
Tvo-story frame building. 81, 500; stock OF
doors. sash, hard woods. redwood. etc,
=. 500: five carpenters tools. $500; ma
ehinery. shaper, two swing saws, glue
press, $500: moulding rack. 500; stock.
ZOO. Total. IS, 500.
The entire plant was insured for $i2.-
%, but the amount 10 said TO have been
fsduced s.. 900 by the receiver.
Z The cause of the fire seemed to be q mat
isf Of much speculation among the people
u Fremont. and many were bold In de-
daring their opinion that IL was the work
fan incendiary.
+ Owing 10 mistake about the telephone
alarm reaching the fire department, con-
siderable time was lost. As Il was the
glow on the sky was observed from fire
headquarters and the apparatus was or
aered out without having been called.