Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1915 — BIRD STARTB FIRE IN A MILL. [ARTICLE]

BIRD STARTB FIRE IN A MILL.

Entangled in Electrlo Wires It Causes Short Circuit Whitcomb, Mont.—A woodpecker caused what might have been a costly conflagration here by flying through an open window of one of the largest cyanide milling plants and getting entangled In the high tension wires carrying 19,000 volts and thus causing a short circuit. Fire soon started In the transformer house, but was discovered by William Francke, the foreman, before serious damage was done.