Durham elevator burned to ground

Frame structure, machinery and seed totally destroyed in blaze

Special Despatch to The Globe.

Durham, Feb. 8—From some unknown cause O. S. Hunter's large seed elevator was burned to the ground this afternoon. Smoke was first noticed issuing from the top floor, and so dense did it become that nothing could be done to check the fire. In a hour and a half the large frame structure was in ruins.

It was the largest hulling, seed-cleaning plant in this section of the Province, and four carloads of seed, mainly clover, were being shipped weekly. Expensive new machinery has been installed only last year, and the total loss is roughly estimated at $80,000, $50,000 of stock and $30,000 machinery. The elevator was located across the tracks from the Canadian Nationals Railway station. The insurance carried will cover only a small part of the loss.

Railways: C.N.Rys.

Stations: Durham

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