The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-20


To which add losses not yet re-
ported, or possibly estimated. 10000
Making complete loss. $500 900
THE INSURANCE FIGURES.
The insurance written by the Salt
Lake agencies probably represents a
third of the whole amount of only
| about 100000 in risks carried by the
losers. A large proportion was written
by the Park City agencies of j. H
Deming Fred w Hayt and Barton
Wherritt. The detailed amounts can
not be known for several days, but
from the best obtainable information
there is probably not more than $20,-
! 900 of insurance in addition to the
figures herewith given and those re-
ported by The Herald'S Park City
correspondent, amounting in all to $751;
973.- Many of the companies declined
to renew their risks in the mining
town, and several of the losers are
known. through pressure of hard times,
to have made no effort to renew their
insurance with other companies. The
number of lapSed policies is very large.
The only insurance written by the
Salt Lake fire agencies is by w. S.
Ferris & Co., Hugh Anderson & Co.,
and w. E. Smedley & Co.
The risks carried by Ferris & Co.
National of Hartford and the Spring
field of Massachusetts,:
Mrs. HELEN Franklin. saloon, stock
and fixtures, SS33.33 W. w. Rose,
saloon, stock and fixtures, $1,000;
Thompson & Jergersen, building. ST.
900: Mrs. Mary Il. Mantor, building, ST.
000; Thomas Cupit, dwelling, $500;
Ascheim Mercantile company's ware
house, 81, 900. Total, 81, 1888.
IInOb G. 20 424 750 in
surance on the stock, building and
fixtures of the Ascheim Mercantile
company placed as follows: So, 500 on
stock with the London company; Fire
mems Fund, $2250 on stock; Alliance
company $4,000 on stock; North Brit
ish & Mercantile, $1,000 on stock;
North B. & NJ, $500 on furniture and
stock; Scottish, $1,000 on stock;
Pennsylvania, s2,250 on stock; North
B. & NJ, $4,000 on building; Scottish,
81 900 on building: Fireman's Fund.
81, $50 on building and furniture; Aetna
s., 500 on building.
The agency of Hugh Anderson & Co.
had $1,700 insurance on G. A. Tewks-
bury's business, $500 with the Aetna
company on the building and $1,000 on
the stock with the London company
W. E. Smedley & Co. carried $4,000
on the Park City hotel owned by
George Hall, distributed as follows:
81. 900 with the Manchester company on
building; s., $50 with the Lancashire
company on building and $3.50 on furni
ture with the Providence company.
ACCOUNT FROM PARK CITY.
The Herald's correspondent at Park
City sends the following:
Park City, June 20.-Fire wiped out
the business district and a large part
of the residence portion of Park City
this morning. The fire started in the
and hotel owned by the
Harrington sisters and occupied by
Harry Freeman, who runs the hotel.
The fire had gained such Roadway
before it's discovery that the exact
origin will never. be known. John
Doyle and Alex Dunn occupied rooms
on the second floor and were the first
to discover the fire, which seemed to
come from the rooms above the kitchen.
1t was 4:30 o'clock when Patrolman
Walden's pistol rang out and the cry
of fire echoed through the canyon and
the hoarse whistle of the Marsac mill
what proved TO be the sad
dest news this town has ever heard.
At this hour few people were on the
street and before the fire department
the spot the building was in a
sheet of flames. So intense was the
heat that it was impossible to bring
the streams of water to bear effective |
~. Fire spread in both directions, un-
til it reached the Dudler building on i
the south and the Crescent concen-
traitor on the north, taking all the
buildings on both sides of Main street.
The Dudler building, Welsh, Driscoll &
Bucks and Hirschman'S stores We're |
The only buildings left standing at the |
upper end of Main street. Kimball |
Bros livery stable and the buildings
If the E. Kimball estate were saved. !
The Park City bank, Shields Bros, the |
First National bank, Bergman e |
Rogers, the Ascheim Mercantile COM
oanys buildings and the Grand Opera |
House were totally destroyed.
The residence portion of what is |
,alled Rosie hill was about one-half |
destroyed. All dwelling houses on
Park avenue, between DR.. Gregor's |
'esidence on the south and David /
zeith's ON the north, on the west side |
If the street, and every one on the |
,ast side, were burned to the ground, |
md only one church, the Catholic, re-
mains standing. The fire department |
vas unable to check the flames by use
II hose, and called on the miners to
,low up the buildings with giant pow
Ter. This saved the lower end of town
rhe Marsac mill was barely saved by |
he employees, who used the company's
lose to good advantage.
1t is thought that the vaults in both
ranks will save books and valuables
lake fire departments arrived this