SHELL PLANT BURNED.
AMERICAN FIRM'S LOSS. £800,000 WORTH OF DAMAGE. (Reuters Telegrams.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, February 11. A machine shop belonging to the Union Switch Signal Company, the largest plant manufacturing switch signals in the United States, which was recently engaged on European munition orders, was destroyed by fire. Tho damage is estimated at JESOO.OOO. The fire is believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion. Frozen pipes prevented the use of the water supply for half an hour. Two thousand shells were destroyed.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 37, 12 February 1917, Page 6
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