The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-23

fire. 1T was nevertheless an extra
ordinary one
BAKER SEES FLAMES.
George A. Schmidt, proprietor of the
Schmidt bakery was the first to send
in an alarm to the Central fire station.
Mr.. Schmidt was on his way to the
State Line house to call one of his en-
ployes and in walking down Plummer
avenue noticed the flames shooting out
from the openings in the south end of
the first floor of the building. The
alarm was received at the fire station
at four o'clock, and departments num-
Der one and three responded Immediate
ly. number three going out second
call. Somebody sent in a call to South
Chicago, and the departments from
there and Hegewisch hurried to the
rescue. but could do little as the Ham
mond departments were using all the
water available.
STORAGE VERY VALUABLE
The mill elevator and mixing plant
were located in the south end of the
building where the fire broke out and
were separated from the balance of
the building by a fire wall The four
floors of this building We're piled to
| the ceiling with bags containing dis
tillers dried feed which was formerly
fed to cattle in the shape of slop, and
cotton seed meal Thousands of bags
of this feed were stored here forty to
sixty thousand pounds TO each section
of about 200 square feet of floor space.
This material is valued at about s24 a
ton. and was being mixed at the rate
of zoo tons a day. The building de-
stroyed by fire was four stories in
DfcrN1+ !.
by one hundred feet in its other d.
| mansions
CHAPLIN LIVES IN HAMMOND.
George Chaplin. son OF the founder
of the Chaplin feed business is the To-
cal manager of the plant and resides in
Hammond on Condit street
He is said to have inspected the plant
thoroughly last night before going
| home, first by himself and again at s
o'clock in company with his carpenter
George Oskunewski He is said tc
have been prompted TO do this because
he caught a Whit of something burn
ing. but after making a thoroug f
search had to give it up and satisfy
himself that there was nothing NOR,
dangerous than hot box.
BUILDING A FURNACE.
When the fire depa tments arrived
TIC DdiluihS was TOdFlHS furnace
The flames shot from the door ant
windows for distance of twenty feet
The burning feed caused an intens,
heat and the flames lighted up the SIX.
SO the fire could be seen at Hegewiscl
and Gibson. All the fire departme n
could do was to attempt to confine tn
flames to one building. An indians
Harbor switch engine was telephone
for to pull out a string of ten car
which were standing between TIL
burning building and the adjoining
building. which was formerly occupies
by the G. H. Hammond company as
storage house and which is now use
for Offices and storage purposes by tn
Hammond Storage company. Ha
these boxcars caught fire the flame
would surely have spread to the mex
building, and the track had just bee
cleared, with the last car running O
| the ties instead of the rails, when tn
wells came down. The nearest build
| ing stands to the west of he burnin
structure and Is about hundred fee
away. Fortunately the wall of tn
| burning house broke off on the uppe
half and fell to where the cars ha
stood. or else three fremen would hay