The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-28
10 FIREMEN TO SAVE.
Single Mill and Railroad Cars
Destroyed at Ballard.
ANOTHER MILL WAS IN DANGER.
Jameson & Dixon Mil Burns Fiercely
and the Donoehue Mil Narrowly
Escapes the same Fate.
ANOTHER MILL WAS IN DANGER.

The Jameson & Dixon single mill
at Ballard was destroyed by fire about
$50 yesterday morning. together with
sevesai railroad cars and a large guam
THY Of shingles. and considerable dam
age was done to the Donoghue mill.
The aggregate loss VIII be nearly sis.-
600. most of which might have been
saved IL the town had had proper fire
protection.
The flames were discovered by E, II.
Faulkner. night Waterman for J. N.
Donoghue. in the southeast end OF the
dry house. which was separated from
the mill by a vacant space thirty or
forty feet wide. With any means for
Are protection, the single mill could
have been easily saved, as the wind
blew the flames of the burning. dry
house away from the mill. and it was
fully twenty minutes after the alarm
was sounded before the mill caught
fire
]. NJ. Dcnoghue & Co.'S shingie mill
stands about seventy feet north of the
jameson & Dixon mill, and for long
time IL looked as If it would surely
burn too, but 1t was al last sayed as IL
BY a miracle.
The flames from the dry-house spread
TO the freight shed, TO j. NJ. Donoghue's
shed filled with dry shingles. and thence
to five freight. cars belonging to the
Great Northern and the Northern Pa
cific railway companies. Three of the
cars were loaded ready for shipment,
and the others were partly loaded. The
burning OF all these dry shingles Gre
ated an intense heat. that soon set the
Donoghue dry-house and mill on fire,
and the wind was blowing northwest.
carrying the flames more or less upon
the Donoghue premises, and at this
time all hope of saving the Donoghue
mill was given up. but the wind sud-
denly changed and blew the flames di-
rectiy from 1t. and at the same time a
stream of water from Stimson's mill
was turned upon the blazing boards
and the mill was saved. Under the d.
rection of John Dorman. Stimson's
manager. 900 feet of hose had reached
the mill Just in the nick of time
The Jameson Dixon mill was built
about two years ago, and cost about
$4,000. 1t was well built and finely
equipped. with a daily capacity of 200.-
} 000 The Magee Bros. of Snohomish
have been operating the mill the last
few months. and gave employment to
thirty or .thirty-five men. To whom
about $500 was monthly distributed.
Some OF the betting was saved, and a
few tools. The Mctsee Bros. Hose about
$500 or $500 IN shingles. j. NJ Donoghue
lost $500 worth of shingles, upon which
there was no insurance. and the loss
OF the shed and damage TO his mill
amount to about $500. covered by in
surance.
Yesterday afternoon about O'clock
a fire started in the dry-house OF the
Donoghue & Dell mill. The curtain
over the mouth of The fiue caught fire.
which set the fiue on fire. and the hot
air carried the flames high above the
top of the fiue, making the fire appear
larger than il was. A stream from
Stimson's system OF fire protection
soon exsinguished the blaze.
The only available insurance on the
Jameson-Dixcn property is $3.50. namely.
$500 in the Palatine Fire Insurance Com
pany, of Manchester, England, and 81 500
In the Northern Assurance Company. of
London.
Tbs fiue OF the kiln-hosise at Esfwe n
Aaildis sringfe mill at Ballard took fire
yesterday morning ana about so dam
age was done before the flames were ex-
:sng7sisned.