The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-14
Hooper EIdredge Building Was
in Flames.
TOTAL LOSS CT $4,000
EXCITEMENT AND TERROR
AMONG THE BOOMERS.

At 4:30 yesterday morning Professor
P. J. Moore awakening to,f1nd himself
almost sulfocated with smoke and
roasted with heat, rushed through the
Hooper EIdredge building on Main street.
sounding the terrorizing alarm to IN
suspecting men, women and children
sleeping in a burning building ALREADY
the fire extended over the rear OF the
building. from basement to roof am
had filed the rooms with such CLOUDS
of dense smoke that to the terrorTzed
roomers it looked for a while as II
dastt7 in the flames was inevitable, out
tbro,,eh the efficient work of the ire
men no one was seriously injured ana
b11f comparatiVely small damage was
done to prop&fIy 1900. -,
The fire, which, started IN a closet Ull
the ground floor N the rear OF the
building, is believed 10 nave
Professor Moore. who, discovered the
FIRE was sleeping in his athletic tram
ing school apartments on LGe secOilU
floor He rushed through the pulio-
ing. shouting fire at the top OI ms
voice and then ran to the street.
Wild Excitement.
Men. women and children, arouse1
by the startling alarm, aWdkSIeu -
find themselves almost chokeu VIZ
smoke. and the widest pandenoiiIuI
refpned until the flames were uhdeT
cCrStroI Women and children screamed
for help and men in their robes dc IuiC
rushed wildly about the floors seehlls
to escare. The fire escape was IN
flames and the stairway was hlled Win
smoke. but some of the men pIdNeu
its unknown dangers and d1'sheo "o"
to the first floor. IT,
after the fire was discovered that A-cIi-
itect Eletting teIephOned the alarm -
the fire department almost at the Seillie
time that an alarm was turned III IIoiii
a box by two officers.
When departments Nos and az
rived the whole northeast section OF
the building was shooting forth merry
tongues of flame. Fortunately the WaIeE
pressure was strong and under the &C
ton of several streams of water Ihe
fire was gotten under cOnIroI ue9PII0
the difficulties encountered by the lite-
men from having to fight the ire from
without a good part of the time ana
! the danger from live wires When they
were able to get into the building
Two Fires Started.
The flames. which started in the
closet at the foot Of the elevator ana
stairway Shaft, were drawn up the
shaft like a flue and spread through
/ the rooms in the northeast section or
/ the building, combining their damage
almost entirely to that quarter.
I Another fire not connected with the
main fire was discovered in room ~
1 in the southeast part of the building
/ by Mrs. Ida. Fugitt, a half hour AFTER
| the first alarm and that suspicious
/ fact makes Chief DeVine and the m
surance men believe that the fire was
I of incendiaTy origin.
( No one was seriously hurt in the hre,
] but several had narrow escapes j. M.
/ Pearlman of the Golden Rule bazaar,
I was found by one of the firemen IN a
( half suffoCated condition from smoke
/ and was carried out. Mrs. wilmer,
who has a hairdressing apartment, mad
/ her hair singed slightly. Captain CrOs-
/ by of the fire department, had his
! r1Oustache singed off in the flames. The
amusing features were numerous. Sew
/ eraI of the men. including Mr.. Kiet-
/ ting, escaped onto the roof and stood
their. with their bare feet covered with
4 icy water, calling for help.
/ Less of Eight Thousand.
/ The total loss is estimated at some
| thing over s., 600. the most of which
: is covered by insurance. Caine and
/ Jennings, the agents for the building,
/ estimate their loss at $1,000, which is
{ covered DN SiI.5pV Ills uI ctllCC III INC 1LiN
/ erpOol &, London and Globe Insurance
| company.
/ The principal among other losers were
/ Barton & Co, who run a dry goods
store on the ground floor. They estf-
mate their loss, which was mostly from
water and smoke, at $1,000, which Is
/ covered by insurance
Professor Moore placed his loss at
! 81 O00 which IS covered by $4,000 In
( surance in the Liverpool & London and
/ Globe company. Miss Katherine Pres
colt VINO had an art studio on the
second floor. estimated her loss at about
81 coo, which is only partially covered
by insurance. The NJ. D. Wells Shoe
company place their loss at about 5000.
Ed johnson of the Turner Jay Hat
/ company loses $3.50, with no insurance.
+ Several other rOomers and Office people
suffered slight losses from smoke and
water.
J. 4. Cline said last night that work
would begin Immediately on the repair
ing Of the building.