MILLERSBURG CHAIR SEAT FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE YESTERDAY MORNING; WATER PRESSURE HAMPERED FIREMEN
Fire of unknown origin Thursday morning about ten o’clock destroyed the Halifax Chair Seat Company Factory at Millersburg. The owners of the factory are John Klingman, Arthur J. Fasnacht and Edward Klingman, all of Millersburg.
The loss is estimated at $25,000 partly covered by insurance.
Wood, tar, oil and varnishes are used in great quantities in the factory, and these with shavings strewn about caused the interior to be quite combustible. Before firemen reached the scene the interior was a mass of flames and low water pressure hampered the firemen from battling the blaze efficiently.
The Brubaker Tap and Reamer factory is only a distance of about 100 feet from the chair seat factory, but was not endangered by the flames.
The Chair Seat Factory employed about fifteen.
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From the Lykens Standard, 24 December 1926, via Newspapers.com.
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