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A Big Iowa Saw-mill Burned

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Day
13
Month
July
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Clinton, Iowa, July 7.- David Joyce's saw-mill, at Lyons, was burned with some lumber in the yards. The fire caught in the planing-room, and within ten minutes the mili was in (limes. Niiie streama of water with heavy pressure were kept on the fire by the firemen but the mili could uot bo saved, and only af ter two hours of hara work was the fire coutrullecl in the yards. The loss is estímate.! at í 150,000, though it may fall below that amount. All the expansivo machinery in both saw and planing milis was destroyed except the battery of boilers. It throws over 100 men out of employment.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News