The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-18

A fire In the E-ItIdl poL t-oI- VI 80
-, nj Murray yesterday afternoon
"a damage to the amount Of between
.,eooo and $4,000. and for a time
..rsstened to wipe out the entire buSi-
49, district Of the place. The people
t..-o7,a faqrfuiIy excited, and MADE
ereh a plea for assistance from SalI
7sEa that squad of firemen with an
Zinc and hose cart were hurried
- IN, a sppcisl train on the oregon
Ssort Line. but before this assistance lL5
lived the people ~ Murray Helu
f-,ug1t the IRE under control VII 81 "a
i-,rr0visad bucket brigade. any 80
ri AM organization at all co e.5, La :
srfincuished the fire before eIU0 WI ~
~ 51-7sge had been done, ana one OF
o.. -oa7 FIRST on the scene stated Jndt
- buckets of water would nave put
an The fire AT that time
Buildings Destroyed.
nh e-. -,r,nr=t-lv destroyed the new
tvo-gtory brick Highland hol1l' -li,,,+
Ev D7niel 3. Jones; the greater -
- hotel furniture. owned by Johh
S,br,a.5zr. a part of the bakery STOCK
- ,-,+ft i'm one of the lowe. rooms
80 nv William CauneSieter; a
80 dwelling house just To the Souul
nj the hotel owned by MIS-. ousdll y
I7sTruau. and occupied by the Ldiil-IS
Of J. Il. StrattOn. A mousse Just-to 1l ny
,,,r-b -f the hotel owned by Albert T..
Csb,on was damaged to the extent OF
S=69 Including the barn and outnouses.
H. s755+ic7 to these there were IN tile
,afghb,rbOOd of seVen-y-HNe EodIueiS
81 4bo hotel. and most of these SuS-
+9foad losses i'm the way of cloynlhS dhQ
o5ber personal effects. schroeder anu
Caunegieter got Ouy p-rt OF Jhell souus,
- ~ Stratt1n and CahOOn famltes
49, an -Fair furniture. The total loss
nj am parties was not IaF from slU-VVV'
sc nj which was covered by insur-
the FIRE originated in some wooden
-hs.t-s fY the rear of the hotel at ABOUT
o'clock IN the afternoon; II Spreau
from there To the hotel, and as a stun
breeze was blOWins from the nor IN
west. the flames were soon driven
through the building. Nothing could
save The Feltman house TO the south,
as I'D was a frame, and very close 10
che hotel The next house TO the south
was also frame. II was owned ana Oc-
cuuied BIZ the family 1f AiouzO CahOOn,
and nothing saved TINS place but the
fact thar a drive well mad been COM
ulcJed the day before and the men
were enabled to fight the fire with the
water from this we'll
Heroic Work
On the north Of the hotel, and separ-
ated from il by but three feet of space
was the home Of Albert z. CahOon, and
it was only after the hardest kind OF
a night thar this place was saved me
building was on fire all around the Ieoi
on two sides. and the heat was so ter
rife right under the wall of the hotel
that j. was almost more than human
nature could stand TO remain on The
building at all; two men were over
cone with the heat, one fell from the
roof 10 the ground, and the other was
dragged from the attic Just IN tsne JC
save him from suffocat ton All this
tine the wall of the hotel was threaten
ing 10 fan over and bury the brave Tel
lows who remained on this house, de-
tamihtd TO save st. Props were used
10 prevent the wall from falling cvel
tlE the IRE vas over. when they were
pushed over into the ruins Of the no
TEL
People Panic-stric1en.
When the fire was at its worst Z
panic seemed to seize many Of the Mur
ray people; they seemed to see the de
strucJi0n of their entire city, and they
then sent in such an appeal to Chle
Devlne Of the Salt Lake fre depart
ment that an engine. a hose cart anC
loo feet of hose were hurried % th'
Oregon Short Line and rushed y lCh al
speed 20 Murray. The people did no
look for relief by rail, and had made ~
Preparations TO meet the Salt Lax
boys So that it took the best part o
en- hour 20 get the engine off the car
There was no platform; one had TO b'
Anplovsed, snG even then il was rec
ssSary 90 lifU the engine TO the ground
ms took so much time that whec tn
engine was finally ready to play on tn
Ere the danger was over. 4 gOo'
sieam Of water was pumped from tn
-TisatiOn ditch ana thoroughly sOake'
-e burning buildings within fev
-nutes after the arrival of the en-
gle
Vie totai Manage done by the fre