Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-09-17
A MIDDAY FIRE.
The Northern Milling Company's Flour
ing Mill Partially Destroyed.

At 1925 o'clock yesterday, fire
was discovered in the Touring mill Of
the Northern Milling company and
for over an hour the fire department.
had the hardest kind of work to keep
the fire from spreading, though the
plant itself was very badly damaged.
The fire broke out on the second floor
and the cause of it is problematical.
There were two men at work in the
mill when the fire was discovered and
the plant was in operation. 1t was
not from a hot box, had it been it
would have been discovered.
The interior of the building was
badly damaged, including machinery,
betting stock, etc. The roof of the
building was also destroyed. The water
flooded the basement and caved in
the south wall OF the foundation.
Several tons of flour, grain and feed
were spoiled by water.
At one time the fire spread TO the
cupola of the main elevator but the
department succeeded in putting it
out with streams of water thrown by
the steam fire engine, which did ex-
eellent work ON the bank of the river
north of the mill. The firemen had
six streams of water playing on the
flames until subdued. Great volumes
of smoke rolled up high into the air
and a tremendous crowd gathered.
1t was raining very hard and every
one carried an umbrella and it was
perhaps the largest collection ever
seen, spread at one time, in our city.
Occasionally it looked as if the whole
property was doomed, but at three
O'Clock the fire was out and the de-
partment had time to take breath
ing spell.
The loss to the Northern Milling
Co. will be in the neighborhood Of
$4,000 to $4,000, which is fully COW
cred by insurance. The mill will be
rebuilt as soon as insurance losses are
adjusted, and it is safe to say that the
plant will be better equipped and
more modern, if such thing is pos
sible, than before.
The fire department is to be con-
graduated upon its excellent work in
combining the fire to the MILL Had it
become well started in the elevator
and other buildings, the conflagratiop
would have been much more serious
and greatly endangering adjacent
property.
Three men were slightly injured
two tiremen and one employe of the
mill.
The Northern Milling company was
organized in 1896. 1t purchased the
Touring mill of the late f. w. Kick
busch at the foot of Scott street, at
the east end of the high bridge 1t
had been remodeled, enlarged,
equipped with modern machinery,
erected elevators, and was one of the
best milling plants in this section.
1t is officered as follows:
President-C. G. Kruger.
Nice-Pres. Gebert.
] Secretary-C. III. Hooker.
( The company is doing business as
usual, having a large quantity of it's
general output on hand to fill all
orders and to serve all old and new
customers.
/ The company is composed of enier-
getic young men and they viii soon
have the wheels turning again.
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~ reduced prices, for the reason that
he is desirious of closing out the pres
sent stock to make room for next sea
sons supply.
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