The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-15

ephone, and came up TWenty-fourth
street a few minutes later. Then followed
a delay of nearly half an hour before a
single stream of water was turned on.
The fire meanwhile had gained great
Roadway and followed the upper tier of
rooms around from the water closets in
the southwest corner, where it evidently
originated, to the northwest and was
raging iercely over the elevator shaft.
The firemen at last managed to get a line
OF hose into the building, but were soon
driven out by their fear OF falling glass
from the roof. They then confined their
efforts to breaking windows and fighting
the flames from the ground.
TOO HOT FOR THEM.
Some one suggested to Chief Binford
the propriety OF putting his ladder up,
and the truck was pressed into service.
Three firemen mounted it and entered a
fourth story window but again they were
driven out, this time by their non-desire
to get overheated.
The Five Points volunteer department
and the Bench station reported in good
time and the volunteers did good work.
Headed by Joseph Clark, several of the
men ran two lines of hose up the
stairway of the Childs building on the
south and entered the burning structure
on the second floor. The streams had a
work is probably due the safety of the
district court rooms and their valuable
contents, the only damage to them being
done by water and hasty moving. Judge
Miners library was saved with but little
loss, thanks to the untiring efforts of the
deputy marshals and the citizens.
THE FIREMEN JEERED.
Thousands of citizens had congregated
by this time, and as the s'damnable''
inefficiency of the fire department
became apparent they began to jeer.
SALT LAKE TO THE RESCUE.
Unable to stand it any longer, Cashier
Rolapp of the Utah Loan and Trust COM
pany, and Judge Dee, one of the direct
ors, telegraphed and telephoned to the
Salt Lake department, and at $40 O'Clock
the first detachment, a hose reel with
LOCO feet of hose, and eight men, arrived
There were no horses to meet it,
and another delay of fifteen minutes
was occasioned. At 9:45 O'Clock
another detachment, six men and hose
wagon with 1000 feet of hose
came in over the Rio Grande Western,
having made the run in just forty-seven
minutes. BY this time the horses were
on the ground and the two departments
came up the street on the gallop by diff
ferent routes.
SALT LAKE FIREMEN CHEERED.
Their arrival was greeted with tremen-
-dous cheers, and the men went to work
in systematic manner, which put to
shame the disordered ranks of the Ogden
departments. 1t must be said, however,
in justice to those citizens who worked
with such untiring efforts, that
the fire was practically under control
when the Salt Lake contingent arrived,
but the splendid work of the latter saved
much of the company's and its tenants
property. At one time there were nine
streams playing on the fire, but, through
the bad Judgment of the chief. their ap-
plication was almost valueless. The men
were afraid to enter the building and
when at l o'clock the last flames were ex-
tinguished the four upper floors were
burned entirely away and the heavy in
side iron and steel girders had fallen on
the floor of the court, carrying with them
almost every vestige OF the structure.