The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-20
Especial to The Herald.I

BINGHAM, Utah, Aug. 19.-All Bing-
ham is ablaze; loss. 100000; partly
insured.
The fire started in Buffers livery
stable at about $3.50 pm. The stable
and contents We're burned, also Rob
erts' old dwelling house and saloon
and stable, Highlands saloon and
contents. The fire then spread to
Chinatown, burning four dwellings
and joss house. Mrs. Cereghinos res
taurant, boarding and lodging house;
then the flames spread to the saloon
of Newman & Granroth; then to Steve
Hayes, general merchandise and
liquors; next his restaurant, occupied
by Chinese; then the saloon building
and fixtures of the Capital saloon, be-
longing to Hanigan & Wilt; then the
chop house restaurant, owned by NJ.
Klopenstine; next came the Social Hall
saloon, fixtures and stock, also bar
Der shop, all belonging to Fitz Miller
next came the saloon of Jerome Bour-
gard, formerly occupied as a dwelling,
but vacant; next came Peter Tavey
drug store, with cellars; next B. B.
Cuinn's two stables and coal house;
next two dwellings belonging to Will
lam Hardy.
Some Saved.
This clears up everything on the
east side of the street, and the west
side, next to Buffers stable, where the
fire originated, and on the south was
McDonald's blacksmith shop, the
Griffin house, Quinns building used
as postoffice, mining recorders office,
United States commissioners office
and Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company's office Next came Jerome
Bourgard's two-story frame building, j
B. Stephens shoe shop and barber
shop. stable and a small dwelling rent
ed as a milliner store, w. H. Meyers
lodging and boarding house, store of
II. a. Smith & Co. and dwelling house;
the dwelling of Bemis, and a small
house of William Handy. The fire then
crossed over to Carr Fork and cleaned
out another stable belonging to B. 3.
Quinn, formerly occupied as a log
cabin for the early pioneers of Bing
ham. and being the oldest or first
cabin built in Bingham when the dis
trict was first organized. The fire
then hit Jake Newmans and Andrew
Grandroths residences. wiping them
up and scorching William Ledding-
hams house, which was saved al
though badly damaged, as was also
the Catholic church.
Forty-Fivc Houses Burned.
The total number of houses burned
was forty-fve, the loss approximately
being as follows:
Roberts, $500; Buffers, $4,000; the
Griffin house, 50 600; Is. B Quinn, S1,Soo;
Jerome Bourgard, $4,000; Stephens,
81 800: w. H. Meyers. $1,000; H. A.
Smith & Co, $500; A. H. Bemis, S1,1OO;
William Handy, $1,000; Peter Tavey,
s.. 900; Quinn's stables added to the
store loss would make about S2,4OO; !
Fritz Miller, $4,000; Mike Klopenstein,
81 200; Hanigan & Wilt, $500; Steve
HAYES, 81. 400: Newman & Grandroth's
saloon and fixtures, $1,000; dwelling
house and furniture, $4,000; Mrs. Cere-
Chino, $500, besides the loss TO all the
foregoing in merchandise and supplies
of every description and kind of which
the merchants and hotel keepers were
well supplied. The total loss will
amount to about $2Oe 900. The men,
women and children are doing heroic
work, which no pen or picture could de-
scribe or relate. The miners and neigh
bors risked their lives to save all the !
property they could lay hold of, and
fortunately saving every blank and |
book and postage stamp in the post
office and recorders office.
F. W. Quinn said he did not want to
lose his job and saved the Rocky Noun
tain Bell Telephone company's switeh
board.