The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-02

/ The wind was blowing at the rate OIL 10
miles an hour from the southwest when
| the fire started at the Denver q Rlo
Grande freight depot at the foot of
| Chucharis street at 2:10 p. m, and the
flames spread with great rapidity. A
| strip four blocks long from north TO
south and two blocks wide from east
! to west has been burned over, but at
| this hour 6 p. m.) the conaaSratlon is
| believed TO be under control. Ine
| flames are still leaping high in the air
| over the burned district, but the WlIfd
has died down and there is no doubt
! that the fire engines which have come
from Denver and Pueblo, in response
| to appeals for aid, will be able to con-
fine the flames within the precinct
| limits.
The AntIers hotel, one of the largest
| in the west; three lumber yards and
| two blocks of business houses have
been destroyed. In round numbers the
! loss is estimated at $1,000 600; lnSur-
ance, one-half of that amount.
| The losses estimated are as follows:
Antlers hotel, $3.50, coo; Newton Lumber
company, 100000; Crissey & Fowler
Lumber company, $4,000; Ell Paso
Lumber company, $4,000; Irvine q
Sons, blacksmiths, 81, coo; Denver e. Rio
Grande railroad, $4,000; Gulf depot,
! Sc, 900; Home hotel, So, 500.
| General losses of business firms and
/ individuals not enumerated above,
$465 900.
The fire started in a pile of rubbish
underneath the platform at the Denver
& Rio Grande freight depot. Within
| five minutes it had communicated to
freight cars standing at the depot. and
it spread so rapidly that it was impos-
! sible to move any Of the cars.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Half car of powder, consigned to
/ G.. S. Barnes & Sons, exploded. The
cans were thrown for hundreds of feet,
and the wonder is that nobody was in
| jured.
Then came the terrible danger to the
city. Great chunks Of fire were scat
! tered about. and in a few moments
the Crissey & Fowler lumber yards, 500
feet away, were burning. The wind
was sweeping a perfect hurricane. The
/ flames rushed through the lumber
yards and burned all the light frame
! buildings in the block. Then they
! leaped across the street and burned the
/ Ell Paso Lumber company and the
paint establishment of Sperry & Tuck
| erman. \ few minutes after the New
ton lumber yards caught fire.
THE ANTLERS DOOMED.
For time after this it looked as if
| the AntlerS might be saved, but the
! heat was too great, and there was not
water enough TO send stream half
way up the building. At o'clock it
was burning on the south end, and the
! famous hotel was doomed.
( The colored employees of the hosiery
showed great intrepidity in climbing
out of the upper windows in the face
/ of an internal neat and pouring water
upon the fire through a small hose.
They left their posts only after they
! became untenable. Down below the
! firemen were also directing streams
upon the buildings, but the water pres
I sure had become so reduced that the
! streams were of little effect.
The contour of the buildings, the up
per stories of which We're of wood,
! served to make a succession of smoke
stacks along the sides, and it was but
a few moments until the smoke and
! flames were leaping from nearly every
window. The building had stood for
d long time against the tremendous
| heat. The flames rose higher and high
er, and soon the outlines of the stone
were seen, with the woodwork burned
away. Here and there little blue flames
J shot up where the copper cornices
| caught fire.
1T took about two hours for the hotel
| to burn, and 1t made a tremendously
hot fire. The walls began to fall after
the building had been burning perhaps
an hour, and they went down with a
tremendous roar The smoke-stacks
remained for quite long time, and
| some OF them are standing yet.
The Antlers annex was quickly IN
flames and went UP rapidly. Two or
| three explosions were heard while the
! Antlers was burning, and these are sup
posed to have come from the boilers.
All Of the AntlerS people, from the en-
| gineerS TO the bell-boys, stayed at their
/ until ha1 .+o
| AT o'clock ali that was left of the
| once beautiful Antlers was a mass Of
! blazing debris. Thousands gazed upon
it with sorrow and regret, as it was
universally conceded to be the chief or
nament of the town. The Antlers was
a beautiful six-story building, owned
| by the Colorado Springs Hotel COM
pany, in which General Palmer was
heavily interested. The lessee proper
was Z. Burnett. The building was in
sured for 100000 and the furniture, val
ued at $50 500, was insured for $31, 500
The building and its contents are to-
tai loss The hotel will be rebuilt
There were several guests In the hotel,
including a number Of invalids, but all
were got out in safety and taken to
comfortable quarters.
| The Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf
railroads passenger depot, on Huerfano
street, was burned. but the other rail-
ROAD passenger stations were I'M
| harmed.
| While the fires were burning several
small ones broke out throughout the
city, destroying several residences, and,
threw many people into CONSERVATION.
BURNED DISTRICT.
The limits of the burned district are
! the Denver & Rio Grande railroad on
the west, Cascade avenue on the east,
Pixies Peak avenue on the north, and
Cucharas street on the south.
Among the business houses burned
out are the following: MacFarland &
Hills, blacksmiths; Irving & Sons,
blacksmiths; Silver Moon restaurant;
Kelly Coal company Felix Americana;
Bloow, tailor; Dietz, blacksmith: John
| Kline painter: Bartlett blacksmith;
Dreamer & Jordan, blacksmiths; Ma CO.
wits, clothing; 4. Shapiro, clothing; j.
NJ. Holliwan, shoemaker; S. K. Kline,
| jewelry; NARROW Bros, confectionery;
Campbell, feed store; second hand
store; restaurant and grocery next to
Gulf depot; Salvation Army hall; Cuba
Clothing company; Seldoridge Ware
house company.
Their losses range from $500 to $1,000