The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-11-20
HAMMOND FIRE
Vas ). COSTLY G ) ONE
Causes iLess Of $4,000 and Throws
Il One Hundred Men Out Of En-.
plaYfhenE Temporarily.
NlNEJEEtfTH oFsM6NTH is
coMPAetxts uMLuckY DAY

The mini tenth fihy OF the month
seems to ibe ilnfu uctly for the Hammond
Fife Brick Company. It was on the
nfneteenth tlsy Of April this year that
eleven houses owned by the company
satsll Big plant sat Hammond, twelve
mills east Of this city on the Balti'
more and Ohio .naiEoad. were con-
summed by IRE Last ais1t ON the nine
teeuth n November jfst seven
mo6f5Ss 5atar 5thea plant valued at $50.
sOOb wltS kcn1sumed by fire. The fire
tliruWs one hundred men cut OF work
The dIe WAS discovered alt 7:3c
0ciorR last EYening. There were only
cltsNIt twelve. men at work 1T this
tine N Tigke men were at work grind
In ctSy and Working at the wet pans.
ETxfr ef Lee Davis was a4so on duty
ThG df& started In the oil house thai
Is iahtached 70 the bnfler house. II
eTes6ldR spread to the main building
which was soon a mass OF flames This
structure Nrs two stories high and
WIS 1t1 feet vide by 120 feet long
Mr. Davis, the engineer. was not III
the engine room at the time the fire
st1rtefh Tie WAS eitEtatzsd Et the wei
pans While there he discovered the
t5h l,lrried 10 the engine roo:1 and
fIdi ariWH fhs hIg whistle sending the
~ I'm IN 1are through t1he Hammond
settlement. =
In u few moments Superintendent
w. III. Wade had force ol men al
work A1isIs tliee hose wi;ts tn1led ON.
Tfie5 Eanse s-was .oonnectetk TO the 5hrS
1,iIirs without delay but the flames had
ElDraadL with great rap1dJty and the
TSiant WIS beyond saving Seeing
9tii SC dis iS1ant was docmed the fire
hrsxsHFe cen.ared its efforts TO save
tbe storage eneds where the nlanutac'
tnred product is kept and the P1g
trestIe ld.sIing from the clay mine 10
the plant II was with heroic eHort
That this was done.
The fire alarm brought oM lne IN
t,af1Ttaalts OF the village and the SUI
rotrnfNnE 1letghborhoof. About haN
~ ana men that are employed by une
[onnSqny live nearby the Ettle :oWn.
FWerylbody worked with all the vln
that was dn him to save tho storage
gneds, the trestIe, the store ann nne
hnr,res They succeeded in Keeping
,t11e Are confneti to the Min bufid-
inrz the, boiler room ami TRANSFER
room axcept one house. The loss ~
a two story dwelling mouse, uhe OH
est 3anFi mark in the town was 4e'
stroye<k 1t was occup!ed hy JoIn
Koli an Italian, who had eleven men
hnardinz with Inn. This house was
h,tiIit INV James Otis Watson and Fran
els III. Pierpont. who first engage, ,r.. In
the brick business at Nuzms M!.s' .S"
now Hamnioud. Tneir n1odest NIL
factory grew into one OF the FsfgeSt
hriclt concerns In the country
General Manager T. u. Brett, OF tIle
sSc.1e-,s, 1,,av in Hanover, York coun-
n Pennsylvania, yesterday anu Mas
NJ, his way home. He arrived IN sHaL. u.
ton this frorrtng and drove OUT lr""i
that City to the scene. 49,,
Mr., Wilbur Graffius, cntet Clerk w y.
Mr.. Brett, went to 'he scene .',,,- iaS,.
1,5asht. He made a canvass OF tie mum. H,I .
i,er cl brick saved. He statea Cna5 nSo
the company had on hand 2.OOo.1CQt Gt =
which would I'LL all the oruaEs Tara
the company had booked
n fs the intention OF tine cola,aa'liy, Ea,'i,
to rebuild the plant Operators WI, a,a
be started as soon as matters can ~
sfnaped. 1t will be some time oeLors
the ,pg:nt Mill. be turning out a manu-
factlIred jfnhtlct-
1SsMaf II Eg EgBReeta Of the city tire Ie'
uaqtnent, Nth several newspaper re,
porterS ffoh the city, went to tne
scene The fire. chief comphnanted
tie niset 5lni itthe way tnat the 'ire was
alandde Vi ~.