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Home My WebLink Aboutscrapbook pic doris tucker willett (18)Five Billed As Plane ash ieth ieth Hits -my ned Building Fire Destroys Trumansburg ` Milling Plant ra- iief New S'ork—UP)—A twin-englned Fire of unknown origin early to - He Army plane, groping blindly day destroyed the Charles Steen - at 1 through a 400-foot overcast, crashed berg feed mill on Main St., Tru- he _ into the 58th floor of the 71-story mansburg, and feed and equipment Bank of the Manhattan Company valued at about $30,000. For a time ❑g Building in the skyscraper -packed the fire threatened an adjoining ct financial district Monday night, business block. r_ i bringing death to all its occupants, I The latter building, extensively y a WAC lieutenant and four Army., damaged by smoke and heat, is oc- ie officers. cupied by Paul McDonald, plumber; �s The -ship disintegrated in a blind-: Gregory's Restaurant, Holton's JJ ing flash of flames after exploding pharmacy, a Victory Chain store I against the rear of the Wall St. and the insurance offices of Frank t ! building —the world's fourth high-! S. Bower. t est—and sent showers 'A6f flaming;sire Starts in Basement debris hurling to the pavement. Tl�e ' building is 937 feet high. Mrs. Charles L. Steenberg, wife One witness said "the flames of the mill proprietor who left the seemed to pour down from floor village on business after the fire, to floor." The fires, however, quick- said that the blaze apparently had ly were extinguished. Police esti- originated in the basement where mates put the number of persons in a carload of corn which had just the building at the time of the ac- arrived Monday, had been stored. cident at from 500 to 2,000. The The fire was discovered by a building has about 5,000 occupants passerby at about 2:30 a.m., and Iduring the day. when Trumansburg firemen arrived I Flight at the scene, the flames were Plane on Routine While none the persons in the spreading rapidly throughout the interior of the mill which had been structure was injured five were operated by Steenberg for the last struck by flaming particles in the 25 years. street. Ithaca Sends Aid It was the second such accident for New York in less than a year. Under the direction of Chief On last July 28 an Army 13-25 Grover Marquart, the village fire- bornber punched through the 79th men did all they could to check ioor of the 102-story Empire State the blaze which was getting be- 3uilding, killing 3 fliers and 11 of- yond their control when calls were ice workers. put in for aid, The Interlaken fire The public relations officers at department responded, and soon rewark Airport, where the victims afterwards Chief Raymond B. I f Monday night's tragedy were Travis with Torrent Hose Com- ased, said the plane was on a pany, Not 5s new pumper arrived rutine navigational training flight at the scene to lend assistance. om Smyrna, Tenn., to Newar1c. Efforts of the hosemen by then he casualties were assigned to the Were being confined to the adjoin- `lantic Overseas Air Technical ing building, and even at a late rvice Command. hour this morning firemen were 'ad Listed still pouring water on the smoulder- rhe dead were listed by the War ing ruins of the mill to reduce the partrnent as: heat. JMrs. Steenberg said that the loss aj. Manse] R. Campbell, 27, the ot, Pontiac, Mich. His wife, of the feed and equipment, along na, lives at Evart, Mich. The with the mill, was only partly cov- ered by insurance. �ple has one child, Ross Edward, apt. Tom L. Hall, 29, of Austin, He listed his beneficiary as wife, Helen Lindseth Hall, of v ix Falls, S.D. They hae two I Randall, 4, and Kenneth, 1, rst Lt. Robert L. Stevenson, 25, he Bronx. rst Lt. Angelo A. Ross, 28, tehall. AC First Lt. Mary E. Bond, of I town, Pa. e ship ripped a 15-foot hole ixt the corner of the building plowed into the offices of the Corporation. The bank build- ronti` on 44 Wall St, and runs tAlb 23 Pine St. V_ Mrs. Lettie Griffen Mrs. Lettie Griffen, 73, died to- day, Sept. 24, 1945, at her home near .Trumansburg. She was they wife of Daniel Griffen. Besides her husband, she leavel' a son, Falter of Trumansburg; al daughter, Mrs. Owen Rolfe of En- field; five grandchildren, twc great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be con- ducted at the residence at 3 p.m„ Wednesday by the Rev. Ford Crip- pen of Mecklenburg. Burial will oe in Grove Cemetery, Trumansburg. -0a K U4#" , parr Horton 1 ..t.ctir: Mt1►li0a fur -1110. M!na Stair Horton, 75, died today, ++'bo d" kundr>, .No► ig, Pt. 24. 1945 at the home of Wil- irt:. da W iswu,,r to Latltid ,c n► Laughlin in Enfield Center, Y44 g! 1 IV) y Ot Woas,tuda � a near relatives survive. ►f t1loft t+_6 4..4*0 Funrtmi services will be held 4bft.,e 1S lr *a c,AAO Ot , rij'ti �►:r 1, m. Wedneiiday tit t 11. v 90�.A Pwgld"r-� ..t 1.._ ilt,l'#el Chabel it, Xsbwn Dre W—yOtLn Miss June E. Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace H. Young of Richfield Springs, RD 1, becme the bride of Otis C. Drew, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis T. Drew of Ith- aca RD5, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, 1945, at the home of the bride, The Rev. Edward V. Winder performed the double ring ceremony. The wedding march was played by Mrs. Lawrence Van Atta, and James Green sang "Dreaming" and "Always." I Given in marriage by her father, the bride was attired in a suit of blue and wore a corsage of yellow and white pompons. Miss Dorothy Young of Utica, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. She had on a coral dress and wore a corsage of mixed pompons. Stanley G. Knapp, Vernon, was best man. A reception followed the cere- mony. The bride, a graduate of West Winfield High School, class of '42, and of the Excelsior School of Busi- ness in 1943 has since been employ- ed as a cost clerk and stenographer in Utica. Drew was graduated from Ithaca High School in 1940. Before serving nearly four years in the Marine Corps, he was employed at farming. The couple left on a week's trip through the South, and upon their return will reside at Ithaca RD 5. For her going away suit, the bride chose an outfit of green, and wore brown accessories. Out of town guests were present from Jacksonville, Utica, Vernon, Ithaca, Chepachet and Washington, D. C. Deaths, Funerals Mrs. Cora E. Leonard Funeral services for Mrs, Cora E. Leonard of the Mecklenburg Rd., who died Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1949, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wed- nesday, in the Wagner Funeral Home, 421 N. Aurora St., wit], ,the Rev. Charles W. Ackley 01 .Mecklenburg and the Rev. Dutton Peterson of Odessa officiating. Bearers were Melvin, La Vern and La Monte Hine, Tho Leonard, Jay, Robert, and Wi Rumsey, and Douglas Wil ' grandsons. Interment was in Hayts f tery. Mrs. Venus Winifred Mrs. Venus Winifre 49, of Enfield Center, mortal Hospital Fri 1946. She was a Order of the field: the Enfiel and the First Ithaca. She is su Hagstrorn tern. airs. Center (,)f THY,' Y