One room down-stairs burst into flames, and
tho watchman had only time to pull the electric
fire-alarm near his hand when he and the mill
together disappeared from the face of the
earth. A terrinc explosion, generated through
out that great factory in an instant, rent all
parts of the immense* structure as suddenly as
a child knocks over a tower of cards, leaving
nothing but blazing ruins to show whore, a
twinkling before, had stood tho largest flour
mill in the country. Nor was this all. The.
land was dug from under the foundations and
the massive machinery buried out of sight.
Two other mills ami an* elevator near by wore
demolished so that not one stone remained
above another, while of three other mills
cracked and tottering walls and charred in
teriors wore the only mementos of the day s
flourishing business.
