Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1901 — Big Fire at Wyandotte, Mich. [ARTICLE]

Big Fire at Wyandotte, Mich.

Detroit. Dec. s.—The main building of the Michigan Alkali company’s soda ash plant at Wyandotte, twelve mill's down Detroit river from this city, was completely destroyed by tire. J. B. Ford, principal owner of the plant, places the loss at $500,000. The burned building was 800 feet by 250. The plant was being run night and day, and there were 100 men at work in the building when the fire waa discovered about 4:30 o’clock near the boiler room. All of them escaped uninjured. Seven hundred men are temporarily thrown out of work by the fire.