The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-20
A GRAIN ELEVATOR BURNED.
Blaze at Frederick, Md, Causes n
Loss of $4,000.


FREDERICK. Nd. March e.
The Frederick Elevator and its ma
chinery. valued at $1,000. and its
contents, consisting Of nearly &C.
go bushels Of wheat, valued at $2s-9oo.
were totally destroyed by fire YESTERDAY
There was an insurance Of $500 on the
elevator and $4,000 on the grain The eie-
yatOr. which was a six-story building
with a storage capacity Of 6ot95 bushels.
was built in 1898 by a stock company OF
farmers and several prominent business
men of Frederick. Douglass H Hargett
Clerk Of the Circuit Court, is president Of
the company
The night miller of the Mountain City
Milling Company discovered the fire IN
the engine room about 2:15 o'clock in the
morning, but it had already gained con-
siderable Roadway. as flames were then
shooting out of the windows The fire
men We're on the scene with fifteen or
twenty minutes, but the flames had gain
ed much headway- When the flames burst
out of the top the heat was so intense
that the frenen and several hundred
spectators were compelled to retreat at
least half a square
At one time it looked as if the many
acres Of factory buildings would take fire.
but the firemeu saved them. The Balti-
more and Ohio freight building, about a
square away. took fire on the roof. but
the blaze was soon exttnguished-
The wind. which was coming from the
southeast. blew the flames and heat away
from surrounding property into the open
country. otherwise the buildings in that
locality would have been destroyed
The bending and spoke works owned by
Marshall Font, nearly adjoining the struc-
I'D fro all
ing a loss of about $500. which would
have been greater but for the efforts of
the firenen- who saved much Of the al
liable machinery.
The extensive packing buildings Of the
Frederick city Packing Company, and
those of the Monocacy Valley Company,
which adjoined the spoke works. were in
imminent danger from the flying sparks
and burning embers OF being destroyed,
but each company had men on the roofs
who kept them wet and stamped out the
burning embers- The fertilizer buildings
Of Jacob Tyson < Son and 8Iessrs. a J.
DeIashmutt and many other factories
were saved by the fremen. as well as a
large number OF small dwellings IN that
The fremen remained upon the scene
until L O'Clock yesterday, pouring vol
UmeS Of water on the STuOlderIuS Debris,
from which flames were ever breaking
out afresh- = large force Of IEen were
put 70 work tearing the ruins apart 70
enable the Eremen 10 get at the IRE IL
the burning wheat
The Mountain City Milling Company,
which leased the elevator three years
ago. used IL for storing its grain. and
had put much Of it IN the building in the
past Few days The officers of the com
pany are Louis Muller. Of Baltimore,
President. F \ Meyer, OF baltimore,
Vice President; George R Dennis, or
Frederick. Secretary and Treasurer and
William Il Turner, OF Evansville. SUper-
iutsndent and General Manager Mr.
Turner said that the grain had been COM
ing in heavily. and on Monday placed
& 900 additional insurance to cover tie
days receipts. The elevator cGIupaLy-.
which has never been a paying invest
rnerr Il is said, formerly carried Sl2.-
go insurance, but recently had i reduced
To 5000
Mr. Turner. General Manager Ct the
milling company. has had an unfortunate
experience with fires Six years ago MS
large Touring mill at huntsville tins
county was destroyed and last HICnth
2 large mill Al BToWuiDgSviie. owned Dy
his father which was operated by his
brother. was destroyed Many thousands
Of bushels of wheat can be taken from
the ruins here and sold for the T-1Sn5-fz't--
ture Of starch and other purposes