The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-02-16
SHIP MODELS LOST
Oisasterisus Fire in the Brook.
lyn Navy Yard

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New York, Feb. i5.-over a million Dol.
ers worth Of government property wAs
destroyed by FIRE which slater toniRh, In
the large machine shop Of the BROOKLYN
navy yard known as Machine shop No
q, and the workings OF the navy YARD
nave received serious setback. Nam
line models and patterns Of oattleships.
their parts and plans lave been destroy
% and some OF them cannot be obtained
tsain except by going over the worn
mapped out in The beginning The stearn
neineerins department OF The Brooklyn
ara is practically wipd out. and tho
work done 10 that building will have 10
q thrown temporarily upon the depart-
aent % yards and docks and that %
obstruction ana repair.
The fire vas discovered onu the elaru
iven at $50 o'clock tonight by the man
4 watch on the bat,tesnip Massachu-
.etta The men Of the Massachusetts
curr.ed down TO the machine chop abovt
20 yards away. and with the aid Of A
lose reel picked up in the yard got .
mall stream playing on the nre The
uildlng was about 100 Net N width and
-s feet long It was four stories and
uht OF stone and brick. The woodwork
was saturated with oil and the fame.
apidiy gained Lea -ay. It was seen
hat the Massachusetts men could -
'ut little. and Col Hungtisgton in oo,o-
ua1d OF the marines. jo.leu In the wo K.
All the engines ia the neighborhOoa o-
be navy ward rcsponde- 20 the alarm.
1ut the frcmen found the great machine
hop completely enveloped In flames and
ttcnuon had 90 be paid to the 70 indry
nd other lldngs IN tee vicinity aev.
ral times the flames got start on ths
ouudry roof but the nremen quickly
out them out a small corrugated iron
ruudng In the rear OF the machine shop
was burned. but the ioss on tn% In tn
signincnnt
The hre made such rapid progress IN
he machine shop that by $50 o'clock tha
ficals OF the navy yard prcoounced It
90 utter loss.
Az about II o'clock the nr~ had spent
tself
Machine Shop No % was occupied By
The coprersmlths, the boile rrnakers. tho
arpcnters and machinlsts About ain
undred people were employed there, but
nlv two watchmn were In the building
Q the time OF the outbreak Of hs ara
'sjde from being filed wi'h great uaAa~
machinery, more or lees used, tAa
uildlng was used az a pattern and
model shop.
Here were kept all the models. plans.
lrawings and specifications Of work "a
done on any one Of the naVy v,.ssAn
hat were 10 be repaired. Many modsAa
battieshins and wnrships buYt from
time 20 time were kept there Thesa
we're mostly copis OF models and .hsAf
oss, while footing up considerable from
3 pecurIar, point. VIII not be irreparable.
fhe steam engineering department had a
umber OF elaborate plans which were
ulginated in this yard and they cannot
be replaced
la the machine shop very little work
vas on hand. number OF small ordsru
were heing allied for the torpedo boats
Mckee. Rogers. Foote. Porter and come
'nglne httngs were being turned out Sor
be Newark. Scorpion and Indiana.
he records and models OF the battle
hip Maine which was blown us In
Havana harhor on Feb. Is. 1898. wero
also destroyed
The loss 20 the building is placed at
2-0o00. that OF the machinery and lathos
Do thD uGndlng 100000 The cost OF thu
models and patterns Is yar,oGsly e@ti-
mated, but onlcials IN the yard put the
otal loss at little over one million. The
uuse OF the IRE Is unknown as yet.