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Page 6C TV TIME SUNDAY East Oregonian Saturday, August 13, 2016 OUT OF THE VAULT EO file photo Fire crews battle a blaze at the Western Milling Com- pany flour mill on July 21, 1947, on Southeast Court Avenue and Southeast Fifth Street in Pendleton. E[SORVLRQ ¿Ue GePROLVK PeQGOeWRQ ÀRXU PLOO bullhorns Nept dust explosion the crowd out oI on the second danger. Hundreds Àoor oI the oI onlooNers lent Western Milling a hand as needed &oPpany Àour Pill to help stamp out on July 21, 1947, smaller ¿res so ¿re and the ensuing crews could Iocus conÀagration on the main blaze. leYeled the Iacility Renee and caused ¿res Struthers Prisoners in the Umatilla County that threatened a Out of the vault Jail, located in the southeast Pendleton Umatilla County residential Courthouse across the neighborhood and the street Irom the mill, were county courthouse. evacuated to the city Mail Ior The explosion at 12:35 saIety, and some volunteers p.m. sent a super-plume moved ¿les and Iurniture oI smoNe into the air out oI the courthouse while reminiscent, according to Zitnesses, oI the mushroom others battled spot ¿res on the rooI. cloud oI an atomic bomb. The Iollowing day, The ¿re spread so Iast that the entire mill complex was ¿remen were still pouring water on what was leIt oI on ¿re within 15 minutes. the mill, and mill oI¿cials The suction created by the Àames, which shot hundreds deemed it a total loss to oI Ieet into the air, dispersed the tune oI more than burning embers over several $500,000. The main mill, city blocNs to the south two warehouses and an and east, bringing residents almost-¿nished wooden outside to deIend their elevator were destroyed, homes with garden hoses. along with 75,000 bushels One grass ¿re raced up the oI premium wheat and south hill and threatened the 700,000 pounds oI Àour. city water reservoir beIore But not a single person being doused by volunteers. died in the blaze ² all the )ire &hieI William employees were out oI the %atchelor directed Iour building Ior lunch. And ¿re trucNs at the scene, ChieI Batchelor said his including one Irom crews suIIered only minor Pendleton Field, and burns, cuts and bruises. brought the department’s The only Iatality, in Iact, entire supply oI hoses ² 13 was nowhere near the mill lines ² to bear, hooNing at all. Sister Mary Doreen, up to two oI Pendleton’s 29, oI the Order oI St. wells, a booster pump and Francis, a lab assistant at St. an upriver intaNe, pouring Anthony Hospital, rushed enough water on the blaze to the outside balcony oI to lower the level oI the the hospital to watch the south hill reservoir by ¿re, lost her balance and two Ieet. The heat was Iell 35 Ieet to the pavement so intense Ior a time that below. She died oI head and ¿remen used solid wooden internal injuries about three doors borrowed Irom the hours later. nearby Oregon Lumber This was not the ¿rst <ard and other maNeshiIt ¿re at the mill site, either. shields to protect them Irom The original stone mill, the searing Àames. Plate then Nnown as Byers Mill, glass windows at Comrie burned to the ground almost Motors and the Leo Goar 50 years beIore the 1947 ¿re, and that blaze almost plant across Court Avenue were cracNed Irom the heat. tooN the courthouse with it. The stone building at Utility poles burned, and one time was used as a Iort some oI the cable pairs during an Indian scare in melted, and Paci¿c Power Pendleton’s earliest days. and Light shut oII power ■ to the area until the ¿re Renee Struthers is the was brought under control. Community Records Editor Union Paci¿c 5ailroad for the East Oregonian. See lost some tracN at the mill the complete collection of property but rail cars were Out of the Vault columns at moved out oI danger. eovault.blogspot.com TraI¿c snarled as Court, Dorion and Emigrant avenues were shut down near the ¿re scene. %ut most The only oI the problem was caused funeral home owned by gawNers who drove by the Burns family as near to the ¿re as they could and then abandoned their cars. Several thousand people surrounded the ¿re, and policemen with A Sunday Morning PBS ABC NBC CBS FOX 8 AM 8:30 9 AM 9:30 10 AM 10:30 11 AM 11:30 USGA Golf USGA Golf Paid Paid P. Blues Resorts :15 Rio 2016 :15 Rio 2016 LOL: Latinos Out Loud Paid W. America Wildest Islands Is Your Brain 12 PBS ABC NBC CBS FOX PM 12:30 1 PM 1:30 2 PM 2:30 3 PM 3:30 4 PM 4:30 5 PM 5:30 USGA Golf U.S. Senior Open Site: Scioto Country Club (L) Paid Friends Teen News 2½Men LivDream 2 Broke G. USGA Golf U.S. Senior Open Site: Scioto Country Club (L) +++ The Dead Zone Martin Sheen. 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