Weekly Republican, Volume 57, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 July 1911 — Page 1

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Tribbey & Mullenhour Plant Burned to Ground in One of the Biggest

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LOSS MAY REACH $15,000.

Firemen Fight Without Sufficient Hose---Five Cars Pulled From Under Flames Other Buildings Damaged Intense Heat Burns Hose,

When It All Happened. 9 :00 a. m. Fire started. 9:03 Switch engine in Pennsylvania yards whistle, sounding fire alarm. 9:10 Hose cart arrives. 9:15 House across road occupied by James Peterson catches fire, 7 .... . 9:35 Many timbers and beams of old mill fall with a great crash. 9:45 New chemical apparatus arrived, but is not ued. 10:30 3." gal. tank of pa?oline explodes great amount of black smoke, but Jittle noise. "Was located under ground. 4:00 p. m. About 100 men" employed in cleaning awVy grain and repairing" Pennsylvania tracks. Also many linemen from various points repairing wires and replacing" poles damasred by fire. mm

Picture of the Tribbey arid Mullcnhbur elevator which was totally destroyed todayun one of .the. worst fires-Piyrnouth ever suffered. ' ' t

One of the greatest fires ever suffered by Plymouth, totally destroyed the Tribbey & Mullenhour elevator Monday along the Pennsylvania tracks on South street burned the store house and office of the plant badly burned a house across the street, as well as eight or ten other buildings in the vicinity. The loss on the elevator and grain will reach, fully $10,000 and perhaps more. The loss on the other houses, the Ness planing mill and other things burned will add perhaps $2,000 more. The total sum may reach $15,000, but is quite well covered by insurance. The fire is thought by all who saw it at first, to have caught from the sparks of the switch engine on the Pennsylvania railroad. The fire was first noticed by Carl Zook, engineer at the Pennsylvania pumping station, at about 9:05 o'clock in the forenoon. It was at that time but a little patch on the cupola, on the outside, but the entire upper part of the interior was in flames in a very few minutes. Carl ran to Thomas' grocery on the corner and had Mr. Thomas turn in the alarm. He had great difficulty in getting central having to try for it seemed to him five minutes before he had a reply.

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The Republican's reporter was one of the very first to arrive at the scene of the firp. The flames spread very, rapidly over the roof. Mr. Mulleuhour was telephoned to about it and he and Fred Tribbey ran out to see,. They realized then that the flames were beyond control. When the fire department arrived there was no , possibility of earn r the elevator, and probably none, of saving" the store-ioom just to the west of theh elevator, or the olVce building farther to the west a id south. Lack of Hose. The firemen were greatlv r.and'capped for lack of hose. They at first attached ,totthe hydrant just" south of the elevator, but there wa some delay in finding a wrench to turn' on the water. Before they could use the hose 'at all .the, intense heat from the burning elevator burned the hose !efore it could.be detached from the hydrant. About 150 feet was thus destroyed or rendered useless. v The closest hydrant was far to the south on Walnut street and the hose x - i at -hand would not reach the build ns properly. Xess ' planing mill. . the I?eitinger house and Andy Molter's house opposite . the elevator all caught and one of the houses burned fiercely. The" firemen could "not get j around on South street to throw the water direcetly into the flames,' but j bad to fight it from the south toward which it was burning. " I i j" Meu and boys with'bucket helped put out the fire on the roof of the rriirand'alsd on the houses. A hunjdred feet of 'Pennsylvania hose was (attached to the pumpinsr station and jwith übout 300 ft. of city hose made n srood stream, .which S"on ended the fire on ' the phning ra:ll. The en jrine was kept at 110 pounds of pres sure. This: and the two lines of citv hose j soon got the fire under control outid of the elevator and adjoining build:nrs. none of which could be paved. When the framework of the . elevator fell the Sntensitv tf the heat be?an to abate and the dancer it' he niMi"0 acros the street wa nast. The Keitinzer diou half ired. the front part suffenng the jmost. Tt was occupied bv Jirn.-.P--on. engineer at the eleetrtic lijbt plant. .

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Mr. Peterson got most of his furniture out but lost a $75 gold watch, which some one took while helping to carry out the goods. Mr. Peterson had. $350 insurance which will cover his' entire loss. The house U unfit for occupancy, but Mr. Peterson has already secured another house near J. S. Ness residence. The last of the severe fighting of the firemen was on the west of the elevator to save . the beer storage house from burning. The burning of the office and warehouse of the elevator made a hot fire, but the wind Mas in' favor of the firemen. There are a few remains of the ware room, but nothing worth anything except for kindlinsr. In the warehouse were stores of flour, lime, plaster, cement, tile. etc. The elevator held about 4,000 bushels of wheat. Of this 1250 belonged to D. E. Snyder but he had it fullv insured. Ziba Truax had COO bushels, John Gibson 255 bushel -y and there were others, whose exact amounts will be hard to get becarse the grain book of the firm was burned. The other books were put into the safe at the office and are perhap saved. Tribbey & Mullenhour had $000 of insurance on the building and contents which covers most of their loss. Mr. Tribbey had not been at the elevator for abouto two weeks, on account of illness. Mr. Mullenhour was going to take out some more insurance today on the stores of wheat to protect himself in cae of loss on wheat store! by customers, lie stated that they were responsible for all the wheat stored there except that of Mr. Snyder, who carried his own risk. Tn the elevator were besides th wheat, 350 bushels of rve. 500 of oats and about 100 bushels of con. There will be some salvage in this train. aU of which was not burned. Tt will be good for feed at perhans the half price of srood strain. Trihbev & Mnllenhonr's loss will be several tbouand dollars, however, at best. Save Five Cars. Five freight cars were saved on the tracks next to the elevator by ome quick and dangerous work o'. the trainmen. Three box cars, a car of coal and one of wood were standin? on the track along the elevator, and the flames - were sweeping over them in a way that would soon have made an end of them. The switch engine backed into the fire, hooked to the cars and pulled them out without any damage. This was done be fore the firemen srot there. The beat was so intense that it warped the rails and made them red hot. Other Buildings are Ignited. Besides the ehvator, the houso across the uav, occupied by James Pterson and the o d planintr mill, a nnmWr 'xjf nearby properties also caught fire. Among these were the bid double house owned bv J. A. Molt er which was '"badly .damaged several weeks' a?o bv another fire and is at present unoccupied, it still needing many repairs. A hose was let play on the front of the place for some time and the fire was all extinguishedA save a small Maze o i the.roof fnearthe' chimney Mr. Molter and several other men put that ouMhemselve. ' The small lvrown'hous on the corner of W. South and S. Plumb sts. also was ignited but -quickly extiruished. -The. roofs of both the bous an V j-arn of T.E. HonsMon canrht fire froTn..flvinr sparks but thes fis were also put out in a short tH.e a"'1 no a""" wn 'one. ( John A. Holland's ban ts.n wood?h -were set fir to but not daTrorod'to anv fxtent. Sron or eirht rth-" haTis. sed nd bonsoq were Wijted bv flvn" of . tinWr r saVs. s""? op fTipnrbein over tbre loeV r'isat 'rnm t Confla'Tation at tfl eleotr. Tbee iclded 0,a"l'' TteVnq rn jt hnnc. Monroe Pen MV Va-'i. Mrs. FoJev's bonce. th of of MVq. Ton Tee' rpjsi-'ene. O A r?rp?ners bruse nd arn. "fr. TTrl'd'T,S bo"!' fld !.iw; wi" "-iirnA'' "t.f I'ftTe fn on two places on the roofs.

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History of Elevator. .The history of the Tribbey & Mullenhour levator, better known as the old Thayer elevator, is almost as old as the city itself. It was brought here from Ohio in 1859 by a man named Loekwood, who put it up here and operated it until 1862, when he sold it to George F. Benson. In 1864 it was bought by Henry G. Thayer and by him enlarged. He also put in steam instead of horse power, which had been used. Under his management Plymouth became the greatest irraiu markt between Ft. "Wayne and Chicago. Many times wazons 6tood in line for ' half a mile and more, waiting to unload, and some were compelled to wait so leng that they turned away withouot unloading. With the adavent of railways, era in ffn dually went to nearer towns vet. the Thayer elevator alwavs en.ioved a fine patronage. Mr. Thayer held it for 45 years. Since his time it was owned by F. E. Garn, The Plymouth Grain Co and lastly by Tribbey k Mullenhour. PUHB STREET EIS L HOME OF WELCOME MILLER ENTERED BY THIEVES WHILE FAMILY IS ABSENT WEEK OT ITH. TOTAL LOSS ABOUT $75 Valuable Suit of Clo'.he', Shoes, Gold Cuff Buttons and Two Brooches One a Diamond Are Stolen. The home of Welcome Miller at the corner of X. Plumb and "Washington streets, was entered by burglars sometime during the week of the Fourth while the family were out of the city. A very valuable suit lelonginr to Mr. Miller was stolen, in addition to a new pair of shoes, a pair of solid gojd cuff buttons .and two brooches one with a small diamond set, valued at about $10, and the other a plai gold one. The total loss amounts to nearly $75. The exact time of the burglarv Is not definitely known. The M Her family left the city on the Fourih, remaining absent until the folio wrlrg Sunday. However the los was not discovered until last Sunday when Mr. Mill r decided to wear the suit and found it m'ssins: from his clot. Xeisrhbors sav that the do? belonnsr to the Durbin fnrly who H'-e in the first boire north of the Miller -nqdonop seemed unusually noisy on Wednesday tie ni"ht op the 5th. as '"irh Tat'v disturbed bv someHnor. TM leas them to beUrtv the fVKhery was committed on that na-t'cular niH. t10 animal serr cr?n person eitrin? a reiih- "' home and thus making sue1! a fncq. ' rh ft Inf mnct have ntrd thm "ront door bv mean? oft a skeleVm ph a1! windrt,vs e- found c.Vtirev locked uon the family's re-f..-i ,xt.:a fh hck door was rot oilr locked "t the screen doo was ocn nAVed. Wheeler it rg ovidetw Vnnw of te vs"e of eenrnnfi nd thouffht it a pood chance to neak in. Th-? bouse was vol dit'he anr ttjiv -rrer- for ,w at -thnf pveral of the drawers of "Mi-s. Mill-

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er 's furniture were badly mixed up, but she thought nothing of that until the articles were missed. Investigations have been made at the secod hand stores but as yet no trace of the criminal has been found. Small Blaze at Ross House. The Ross House had another small fire again this morning. At about 9:10 little Frederick Cole while playing in the yard noticed that a portion of the roof on the east side was on fire. He at once notified the office of the hotel and the clerk promptly sent in the alarm. Then the employees of the -place and several other people who happened to he near by beiran throwing buckets of water on the burning shing'es. The hlaze was just about extinguished when the Fire company arrived, they reaching the scene fully five minutes after the fire wh'sth sounded. Little damajre was done to the roof but water soaked thru, wetting one of the up stairs rooms, but doing but a small amount of ininrv. The fire mav have been started bv a spark f rom a passing train as the employees think, as there had been no. fire in the kitchen this morning to speak of and none whatever in the laundry. Then aUo, the burned part was several feet away from the chimney. However many people are of the opinion that this fire was started in the usual war by an over heated and improperly protected chimney. This is the third time in about a rear that the building has can?ht fire and 4hen ben-. put-outbefore, the firemen arrived. Bitten By Dog While ringing the fire bell Monday morning. Alpha Wiekey was attacked and bitten in the lpft hip by a dog belonpin? to Wm. Ormond Tf the ordinance in regard to te muzzleing of dog? had ben carried out properly the accident coull nrt have occured. ABOUT BAD EGGS. The. Law. of Indiana As Givei By the State Food and Drus Commission'r Bsraa'd H. E. Barnard, state Food aid Drucr Commissioner, sends out the following warning against the sale of bad eggs: The Indiana Pure Food Law f irbids the sjle or offcrin? for sale cf e?gs which are in any deaTfe decomvod pntrd or rotten by parasraoh 4 s-ct ion 2 of te law which reads: An article shall be deemed as adulter ated: In the case of f wd If it consists in any proportion of a filthy, decomposed, putrid or rotten animal snosiance. SFCTTOX 4 maVe- it the a f duty of all peace and health officers to sieze egis found to be unwholesome ana wmn are mi-naea iur sale or offered for snle.

SECTION IU ot the Act evCnts put in the paper under the provi-les that anv person, person 'Tonights" please phone the Bepubfirm or corporation violatinsr any of ijcan 0ffice or notify the Reporter in the provisions of this Act, shpll up- ue time. e n conviction for the first offeo.se, - h? hy a !r 1 Settlers Picnic. .

he second offense, bv a firtc ?t les thnn nor mor- f'an $101. and for the third a-d subsequent offences, bv a fine of $100.00 and im - ! nrionment in the county ia'l for iot 1 1? tan thirty nor more than nine. f.. davs. T";rwto! of te "od a-d "H-n"' n.tTnent of tb Sta'e "Poa 0' TTHb a-"1 11 "Crmn'v. C:t- a'1 town TTealth Oncers a-rt istr'cted enforce these provisions of the law. , . . . Fgg nronenrs. Delpr aid Sl'in-

r.e'-s will take Notice t' at te sa'e of Mertoe Postoffie is Moved, bad crs. or of tnle e" es resh j ' A-s is in violation rf thp law and . The fentone postoce, on SaturhArpver evidence of vrolations can dav. was tovp.1 irto if's rew ouar-

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Oscar Steineck and Howard Anderson of Bre men Meet Death While Takinp Pleasure in a Sail Boat on SundayPeculiar Accident

0scar Steineck and Howard An ;(,,ern were drowned in the Lake of the Woods Sunday afternoon about three o'clock. They sank in about forty feet of water and were only pbout ßft&' feet from the shore. Both were young men of Bremen. These two with Oscar Keller and Fred 'Hoople, also of Bremen, were sailing on the lake and the boat capsized. All except Anderson could swim. Steineck and Anderson held on to the boat, which bad turned ov er and Keller and Hcople started to swim to.. shore,t sajjng that- they would bring, another boat in a few minutes and take the boys off the sa;l boat. The swimmers had barely cot to shore, when on looking back they found that both men on the boat had slipped off and gone down, Whether because of the coll and Mrs. Sarah Gray. Mrs. Sarah Gray, a former resident of Argos, died Friday at Flora, Tnd.. where she had gone about s'x weeks ago to visit her daughter. She was 86 years old and death was due to paralysis For some time past she had made her home with her sons at Mishawaka. The deceased is snrvived by two sons, Herbert and A. L. Gray of Mishawaka: o"e daucrHer, Mrs. I. B. Morsan of Flora, Ind., and two hrotbers. M. L. Corey of Aros and j Corev cf Missouri. The funeral uas neld at tlp jordau church four ! miles south of Ariros on Monday afternoon.. Burial in the cemetery ne Dv Notice to Societies. All lodges, clubs ;hun-h societies

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The Old Settlers Picnic Assoc ation met in Bursrer's Hall Thursday eveninir, July 13 to arrange, for the ' old settlers' picnic. The officers for 1 he coming year Ve Wm. Sherland, Pres.; Dr. J. J. i Hardy, Secv.: W. L. Hoover, Trea 1 tj1(1 association decided to bold the picnic at the usual time and place. the lat Saturday in August and in he Wilson grove just south of t"wn. A -flnA nrotrram is hieing arranged to .suit old and young. . - i fr Tbo bniblincr which it now oe- . . ... ,cupis is a new one. nanng o-lv recentlv been completed. The' new onarters are verv convenient. Republican best for county new

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fright and shock of the accident they took cramps and coulj not hold on. or whether the boat tamed and threw them into the water, does not seem to be known certainly. The went down in about forty feet of water without warning and before anything could be done at rescue. A searc' ing party was at o ee formed to bring up the Lod'es. Steineck was found at ahout seven a d Andtrson not till eleven at ni'ht. The dredüi'nrr for the bodies wa slow and -difficult, but wr.s at la?t successful. - Oscar SIeinrck wsth? son cf John Steineck. V e harlwae man cf Bremen and wa 29 year oil. .An derson was 26 veers oi l and a st ' dent. Both men were - "n - arrie l. j The Rte'nek firvra1 i'l be h-I 1 on Wednesday at 2:00 o'clock. QUALIiY AS DEP0SII0RIE3 Banks Are Re:dy to Take Money Placei in the N-w Post:i Sav ings Ba k. The Stare. First N.titn-! ail Trust Co. lahts I are q a'i ie1 t'e - -selves to reeei'-e t! vo-tr.! -a-in; which will le placed in P y o it!i post ofriee after July 22. A b n'c must deposit with Ocwrne t securitits to cover all th- mono that will le deposited wit'i it. Tue postmaster will be itniftp'' to de posit bis money with t'cs ba-Vs ithat haX? qualified, and v pro a - deposited with the Government. Thre Cheeis for Old ?t J02! ! ! This e-e-ing plans culminte l it' th c il: -ii: d c I ,lng the .Methodist Sunday sc' r 1 p cursion to St. Joe. T'10' V 'ai- is nt definitely sot it s exfrt-d to ibe about August 1st. i Those who wo-t w'C' t1'School about fifteen voc rco -rll find many ne'sy and inter' it atractions, on" of t' e- inHouse rf David." nt BV TI-' -. The seon0ry anl lake trip al -n n- . enjoyable enough to ' p dav's vacation, fak'i- t-5 ' r family re 'nion 'av. snr-r. or gala day of t!- v.-nr T.ae f t--yr. e".1 ?Ir C. v.. " rs t ir-.-nn.n.. ;ii ... . -1--Mls' rs ' v " day ni;t rT Podgone aVrt a month. 1, Ol lPa r. tb w... .., n