The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-13
FIRE DEVASTATES FA|RVIEW
SANPETE TOWN SUFFERS A LOSS
OF ABOUT $4,000.
Opera House and Five Buildings Be
longing to Coop. Destroyed-Lat-
ter Covered By Insurance.
lspeciaI TO The Heraldl

Mt. Pleasant, June 12.-As result oi
the most destructive and disastrous
confiagration known in it's history, the
principal business block of the pretty
| little village of Fairview, situated about
six and half miles north of Mt. Pleas
ant, lies today a smOuldering heap OF
ashes.
a telephone message to this city fOr
assistance about 1915 this morning was
the first notification received here, and
in response the fire department turned
out, taking the machine. The run was
made in about twenty minutes. the
water being through the hose in Fair
view in less than forty minutes after
the summons was sent. Besides the
fire department, about a hundred per
sons went over TO render such assist
ance as was possible.
When the department arrived, how
ever, the fire had made such headwsy
as to preclude the giving of any great
assistance. other than to prevent fur
ther spreading.
There We're six structures destroyed.
five of them being the property of the
Fairview Cooperative Institution. and
the sixth being the local opera house,
owned by the Social Hall company.
The buildings. which were the prop
-
valued at $500; granary. $1,000; ware
house, about $1,000, and general store
building. at $4,000. n wagon shed and
granary at the rear were also included,
valued at $500.
In the two wagon sheds were prob
ably $4,000 worth of machinery and i'm
plements, the property of the Coop
Wagon & Machine company of Salt
Lake, but for which the Coop was re-
sponsible. 1t is thought this was all
saved but about $500 or 81 600 worth.
In the granary there was about 500
worth of grain DESTROYED.
Everything was taken from the burn
ing store building, as it was the last in
the line. and the crowd of vigorous
workers had ample time TO go through
it. The estimate of damage through
handling is that fully one-third of the
value was destroyed.
\ lot of new shingles just received.
valued at about $500, was completely
destroyed.
The safe was taken out of the store,
and as all papers of value, accounts,
notes. etc. We're in it, there is no loss
in that direction.
The entire Coop property is covered
by an insurance policy in the Home of
Utah, amounting to $4,000. This in
cludes the buildings and all their con-
tents.
The opera house was valued at about
$500. with scenery, seating apparatus
and other accessories at about $500. This
had no insurance on it H. De Fries
was the owner of d full one-third inter
est, the other two-thirdS being the
property of about seventy-five citizens
of the town. Nothing was saved from
this building.
The fire originated about 1915 O'Clock
in the opera house. An old crippled
man, James Russell. whose home is at
749 East South Temple street, Salt Lake
City, had solicited and been granted
the privilege of giving a stereopticon
and had remained there over last night
He had started fire in the stage stove
this morning, and the pipe passing
through the roof became heated, and
from this the roof caught. 1t had not
made very great headway before its
discovery, but the extreme drynesS of
the buildings and the lack of ire-fight-
ing facilities made it impossible to pre-
vent its spread. The large crowd
worked manfully. however, and as
sisted before the Mt. Pleasant depart
ment arrived, in keeping it from
spreading.
The fire department from this city
did splendid work in getting their ap-
paratus in order here and in making
the run, six and half miles. in twenty
minutes, and in the very efficient ser
vice after arriving there. The citizens
of the town gave them a dinner and
their fill of refreshments before they
were allowed to depart.