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STAN CIA NEWS
Volume VI
Estancia, Tohranck Coüntt, New Mexico, Fbiday, August 19, 1910
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THE
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FOURTH
English Planing Rflill and Box Factory Destroyed
Loss about $5,00 above
insurance
. Another fire has visited Estan-,
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cia, this time destroying me cox
Factory and Planing Mill of the
English Manufacturing Company
' in the north part of town. Night
; Watchman Proctor Madole, em
ployed by the company, had made
his rounds at ten o'clock and
found things all right, was just
starting his rounds at 11 o'clock
on Monday night. After regis
tering at the engine house, he
passed southward, and when al
most passed the main building
discovered a blaze underneath the
building. As he started towards
it to investigate, he says it sud
denly grew larger, the flames
shooting toward both sides in an
instant. Being underneath, he
could do nothing. He gave the
alarm as quickly as possible, and
ran to the office. ' Elmer Adair,
who was the first one to arrive,
assisted him in saving some of
the papers from the office. In a
very few minutes the whole
building was a mass of flames.
The entire structure was com
pletely destroyed, as was also a
bo car of the New Mexico Cen
tral, which had beep partially
loaded with fruit boxes for ship
ment. About three thousand dol
lars worth of finishing lumber,
which was stored in the building,
was also destroyed. The lumber
yards, which are a littte to the
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east were unharmed, as was the
epgine room to the north. The
latter would undoubtedly have
been ruined had it not been for
the fact that the building was of
cement.
