The Ballard Kilns Go Up in Smoke

A fire was discovered at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the north kiln of the Stimson Mill Company's dry house at Ballard. The dry house is composed of five kilns and the fire was confined to the two north kilns. The flames burned fiercely for a full hour before they were under control, and it was three hours before the fire was finally extinguished. The shingle mill is only twenty feet away from the burned kilns and the sawmill not over 100 feet away, and property worth $150,000 was in great danger of being destroyed. The Seattle fire department responded promptly, a hose company and a hook and ladder company arriving in thirty minutes after the fire broke out and an engine in twenty-five minutes thereafter. The Seattle firemen, the Ballard fire department and the mill fire corps all did excellent work. The two north kilns, valued at $1,200, were destroyed; also a stack of lumber and shingles in the kilns, valued at $1,500. The loss is fully covered by insurance with Sanford & Stewart and Burns & Atkinson. The fire was completely subdued by 7 o'clock last evening.