John S. Metcalf, a Chicago mechanical engineer, devised what was touted as the world’s newest and most fireproof concrete grain elevator. By Oct. 23, 1924, The Sun reported that a B&O employee ...

Grain elevators were Chicago’s first skyscrapers ... Metcalf, who had patented a new method for pouring concrete. “Metcalf’s invention, slip forming, means that you can build that shape ...

County Road T. When firefighters first arrived, they were told Fecht had gone into the concrete grain elevator to break up crust on the grain, when he reportedly fell through, Hespen said.

A reinforced concrete grain elevator was added in 1922 to the southwest corner of the building, along with a stucco-frame addition along the south façade with a shed roof and a gabled-roof frame ...

The huge concrete grain-elevator silos north of Interstate 80 near 34th Street in Omaha would face the wrecking ball under a plan moving forward at City Hall. New owners bought the property and ...

FORT WILLIAM, Ontario, May 27. -- The Ogilvie Company's steel and concrete grain elevator here started to slide into the river during the night. At daylight this morning the building had moved ...

ALSO BREAKING IN LINCOLN, A WOMAN IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER FALLING FROM A GRAIN ELEVATOR. POLICE SAY IT HAPPENED TUESDAY NIGHT IN THE CONCRETE SILOS NEAR SIXTH AND G. THEY FOUND A 19 YEAR ...

The grain elevator is owned by Interstate Commodities Inc. Rescue personnel were told that the worker had entered the concrete grain elevator to break up a crust on the grain. He reportedly fell ...

I’m not for sure how they’re going to move all that concrete and rebar.” “The grain elevator was or is kind of our landmark, and as people come into Sunray, that’s what they see from a ...

Crews patch concrete high up on the Ottawa Cooperative Association’s grain elevator in North Lawrence on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. Commuters heading north across the Kansas River may have noticed ...