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FIRE
A fire early this morning at the District 3 asphalt plant on Langdon Drive east of Highway 75 in Dallas County destroyed a biler, a sheet metal barn and 12- thousand gallons of asphalt. The fire started at 8 a.m. when a boiler became overheated and the barn caught fire Sam Atwell, a night watchman, told investigators the heatatiming device was not working last night, causing the boiler to overheat. Abner Briggs, on duty at the
shop, said there was no explosion.
"It looked like the
barn was filled with flame all at once," he said. Five trucks end 35 firemen from Dallas and surrounding areas fought the blaze for an hour and a half. They finally gave up and let it burn after ag seeing that nothing v else was in danger. Estimates as to the extent of the damage differ, ranging from 15 thousand dollars to 35