THE SALISBURY TIMES 
September 16, 1941
 
$25,000 FIRE DESTROYS MILL AT SELBYYILLE
Long Plant Fire Is Fought By Three Companies
Selbyville, Del., Sept. 16
 — A fire destroyed the mill of the I. W. Long and Son Timber Company here early today.The sawmill, planing room and millwork room were destroyed as well as a new addition to the mill.
Urah Long, now active head of the firm, estimated loss at $18,000 machinery and equipment and $7,000 for the building. He said that tne mill would be rebuilt.
The fire was discovered by Lorzo Morgan, whose own home nearby was endangered by the flames. When he awoke at 3 A. M. destruction iff the mill was virtually complete.
Selbyville, Berlin and Frankford firemen fought the fire until ___, pumping water from a near hydrant. At the height of the fire the mill whistle, which is the town's seven o'lock alarm clock, was set off by heat and attracted a crowd to the scene. A southwest wind fanned the flames away from stacks of stored lumber in the millyard and they were saved. The Morgan home, in the path of the flames, was saved by firemen who kept streams of water on it until the danger was past.
The Long mill is on the outskirts of Selbyville and other property is not endangered.