The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-12-13

as n result of carelessness in feeding
or giving draft to stove and crate
cost nearly as much.
The worst culprit is the cook stove
which has no eight hour day nor Sun
day off. The gasolene stove causes
a greater number of fires but the loss
is smaller by half becaose attention
is attracted to them before they have
time for a good start. The gasolene
fire starting with an explosion sounds
its own alarm and added to this there
is usually, a cry of the burned which
summons immediate help.
IGNITING WOODWORK.
The wood or coal stove often takes
advantage of the absence of its gen
eral manager to fire something. usu-
ally the nearby woodwork. a stove
is likely to ignite laths from which
the plaster has fallen or a wooden
partition within three feet. The dan
ger signal is the browning OF the
wood which occurs if the heat reach
es Ala degrees Fair. Ii the wal! Is
protected by tin, zinc or sheet iron
the stove may be placed within a,
foot. The metal to protect the wall
mn,s,t have a space behind it so that
circulation of air will keep 1t COOL
This may be easily secured by hang
ing the sheet loosely on screw looks
The pipe is often the hottest part OF
the stove, therefore the metal to pro-
tect the wall should be run three
feet above the stove.
THE BEST PROTECTION.
Bright tin reflects heat better than
any other metal. If the elbow OF a
nine is within a foot of the ceiling
i, sheet metal should be placed above
it.
4 wooden floor under a stove must
have under it a sheet of metal eX-
: teding a foot in front OF the ash pan
and if wood is the fuel used the met
II al should extend that distance out
under the stove door. All cold ar
entering the room falls TO the t1oor
and is drawn toward the stove so an
air space between tloor and zinc Is
r unnecessary However, it is a very
proper %precaution to put a layer OF
= is inch asbestos cloth under 1t Tor
it may have to catch some very not
Goals.
u Many fires occur from a clothes
= horse or chair holding clothing or
laundry being placed too near a stove
or CRATE and a few from klndllns
nut in a warm place over night TO
n dry.
e IT BURNS THEM ALIVE.
The newspaper accounts of many
l. horrible accidents from using kero-
It sene or ~gasolene to start a fire do not
seem to greatly lessen the number
burned in that way. Kerosene may
A. be safely used for the purpose ii the
stove is cold or if the kindling is
" blazing. Heat without blaze convert:
it into gas which will explode wher
a blaze starts. Gasolene so used is
fearfully dangerous.
~ A parlor or bedroom stove shoult
~ always have metal under it and
the wall is with Is inches it should bf
protected by a sheet of metal on Is
- HIGH dSUc6tOS CIOLu. NV
a coal fire to keep it over night, re
cn member that coal swells one-thirt
in while burning. so hot Goals are like
~ to fall out of the open door o
at over the CRATE bar. Thirteen house
n, were fired last yea by drapery owe
CRATES and stoves igniting.
40 AGONY AND DEATH.
Lrt From $50 to 500 mothers and chi
sy. dren are burned to death and tire
times that number seriously burne
I'D and disfigured in the United State
oil each year by %gasolene stove accidents
,at Last week a mother essayed with on
pc arm to fill the tank Of a lighted stow
while holding her baby with the othe
=, Both have died from burns and al
"a other little one playing near will /
disfgured for life. Stove accident
usually result from filling the tan
without turning out the blaze or frol
splitting gasolene and then ignitin
s'e the vapor of 1t by striking a mate
TN to light the stove. The gasolene ca
should be we'll corked.
DC A gasolene stove should be fixe
WIS to a permanent foundation SO that
cannot be placed against wood
other inf1amable material. 1t shout
have bottom and three sides close
,cr to prevent comIbustible materi;
from reaching the fame and the mai
,st burner CRATES should be two feet fro
,1a the floor.
ad Don't fail to have burners close
he before filling the reservoir, for tlud
M leaking through them will make a
explosive vapor.
Finally, don't go with a light
ct hunt the source Of an odor of gas
,izs lene. The result of finding it by tn,
ar means is always instantaneous ar
ar ~momentous.
ha FRANK CRAFT,
ara State Fire Marsha
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