The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-11
LANES and EXPL OSION
CAUSE Loss or 100000
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lave -een practically impossible to
Iave the Dooly block or High school
building.
For hours the fremen fought with
grim determination. and although IL
loon became evident that nothing but
lhc walls Of the Snort Line building
rouic be saved. they stood by their
posts OF danger with heroic firmness.
The fire reached it's hottest stage abou-
J O'Clock. - which time the whole
building was a mass OF flames that
made it almost uubearable to stay any
EheIs near the building. The fire be
gan 10 die down after O'Clock and by
! the surrounding buildings were CON-
paratively out of danger. The debris
Df the destroyed building burned fierce
III for several hours, but by afternoon
II had been reduced TO a smOuldering
haan While the fire was practically
nut several lines Of hose were kept in
uec and q large force OF hremen were
kept busy all the afternoon one line
Of hose and n detal OF men We're kept
., the place GH night working upon
the smouldering wreck.
Cause Of Fire.
The cause Of the fire is as yet withou'
4 satisfactory explanation. Chief De-
vino said last night that IL was evidens
10 MIN that the fire had started in the
basement either unde~ Clawson'S store.
which is occupied by the Mine & Smel
ler Supply company. or under tho
northwest corner Of their upstairs de
partment. but that he had 10 idea wha'
The original cause could be- Il do ne
Heve. though" said he. from the
rapiditv with y hiCh the fire travelled
ard jumped from room to room vita
put any ap1arenS means or transmlS-
sion that the whole building was hlied
with some kind of gases that had been
Fenerafed from something or other. We
discovered the illuminating gas pipes
IN the basement to be on hre, and had
some difficulty in getting them smut on,
hut 7 do not believe that II was the
nfumiuatfnc gas that conducted the hre
through the building. It seems to me
that ir must have been generated from
chemicals or something.
Fortunately for us We had Sooo
- -a4-- pressure averaging about nine
lv-nve pounds. else everything world
have been swept. The engine Wtth
which we are equipped is entirely IN
adequate for the needs or nre depart
fuent the size Of salt Lakes. II is not
n FIRST sized engine AID is really about
r-1dy FOR the scrap pile. With II anc
the water pressure which we usually
nave we cannot throw a stream OF
water much higher than the third tlool
OF the Dooly block, and had it not beer
Tor tie stauGpipes on the building, II
would have gone, or had the IRE come
Sunday when the engine was Disabled
sou can easily see what would have
. been the consequences I think city
like THIS can afford TO have first-class
engine. -and I intend to SEND conmu-
t,ical<n> ~ the city council in regard
BraSsry Of Firemen.
The hcroism with whica the FIRE lad
dies fought tie Eve in the lace of dan
ger and even death. is shown by feat
accomplished by Captain W. G.. Work
man. j. w Wilson and Peter McCar-
thv Just before the explosion these
mon. ritfs a line - nose. crawled into
the dark and smoke filled basement
from the rear OF the soda water store,
md CROPPED their way through the al
most siihing smoke 70 a place within
q hundred feet or more from the place
OF the explosion.