Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — Fire Causes Loss of $3,000,000. [ARTICLE]

Fire Causes Loss of $3,000,000.

Shelby, 0., Jan. 21.—Fire destroyed the stock house at the Shelby steel works, a branch of the United States Steel corporation. The buildings were so greasy from the handling of greasy steel tubes during the last six years that they burned like tinder. Firemen were driven back and had to take refuge in the line of brick buildings of the works beyond. The stock bouse was filled with finished steel tubing, mad# by the cold drawing process, valued at s3,ooo,OOO^w hicb was made useless.