The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-13
A $4,000 FIRE.
Destroys Continuous Bar Mill OF
the Etna.Standard 81
AT NlNGO JUNCTION PLANT.
The Company wilt ut Once Rebuild
this Time Putting up Fircproor
Struclmrc-!About $50 men Thrown
/ out Of Employment Temporarily.
Insurance loss Is $4,000, and was
Placed In Wheeling Agencies.

The Aetna-Standard Iron & Steel
company's plant, at Mingo Junction.
sustained considerable loss from fire
yesterday afternoon. The fire started
In the continuous bar mill department,
at 1880 o'clock, and was caused by hot
cobble. which ran between the pinlons
and set fire to grease about this portion
OF the machinery. The fire spread very
rapidly. and In short time the entire
continuous mill was In flames. and the
fire was spreading to the steel plant,
but It was checked without any damage
In that direction. The continuous bur
mill Is badly. wrecked, the tlmbers and
flooring being burned and the sheet
roof caved in, while part OF the brick
walls have fallen, though the walls In
the main are still standing.
The fire apparatus at Mlngo was call
ed into play, and did good work. but
not before the burning roof and TIM
bers had fallen In on the machinery In
the mill. General Manager Caldwell
and Superintendent Williams went up
at'3 o'clock, and ordered that no more
water be thrown on the fire. which was
still burning, for fear that 1t would
ruin the machinery. The continuous
bur mill Is near the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh tracks, and was formerly the
nail factory. 1t Is l@Sx375 feet, and has
been operated several years. An Of
flee was built at one end one year ago
and two years ago an engine room
was built. The fire Quilted these parts
Of the building also, nothing but the
brick walsl remaining.
The fire was still burning about,the
engine room last night, and no water IS
allowed to be thrown OH 1t. 1t Is given
out that the machinery Is not all
damaged, and the loss Will be inside OF
$4,000.
Work was commenced yesterday in
clearing away the debris, and the walls
were torn down. The rebuilding will
begin ut once, and the building will be
erected practically fire-proof.
The insurance. which Is carried In
Wheeling agencies, aggregates $4,000
on the entire plant at Mingo Junction.
OF this $2S.500 applies to the continuous
bar mill, which was destroyed. lnsur-
ance men seen last evening stated their
belief that the loss by fire would reach
$4,000. but that 1t might go beyond
that figure IL the water thrown on the
lire had damaged the machinery to Il
greater extent thun they anticipated.
The $2S,5O0 insurance on the burned
mill Is divided as follows:
Mil building ...n................... $500
Aihchinery .......................... 70, 900
be!'lhs ............'.......'.." l,O0O
Total. .seeS, 800
The building was valued at $4,000.
and as the insurance was only $500.
the loss sustained by the company is
SlI,500 on this item alone. The $50, 900
Insurance OH the machinery will GER
tathfy cover the loss on that item, even
II the loss Is greater than the insurance
men figure 1t. They estimate the in
surance loss is about $4,000 which,
will be borne pro-rata by the COM
panies carrying the Sl10,0O0 insurance
on the entire plant, which are us fol-
lowe.