The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-22
DISASTROUS
MIDNIGHT FIRE
Knoxville, Tenn, Loses to the
Extent of a Million.
GENERAL ALARM WAS SENT IN
OUTSIDE TOWNS CALLED UPON
FOR HELP.

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, KNOXVILLE, TENN, .
Is IN FLAMES. y
y Knoxville, Tenn, Dec. 22.-Fire
y that broke out after midnight in y
y the Knoxville Mil building, on y
= Commerce avenue, had caused a =
loss of 500, 900 at 2.30 o'clock this y
= (Monday) morning, and at that e
y time the fire department was =
y making no Roadway against the =
= flames. The fire spread quickly =
= both east and west into the =
y Broyles, Lackey & Co implement =
= house and d wholesale hide and =
y commission house. All the burn
= ing structures are four stories
= high. The block in which the fire y
y started is the same that was
y burned out in 1897 with a loss or y
3 over s., 0OO, 600 It is in the center
y Of the wholesale district
= At 2:35 the fire crossed a mar
y row alley at the west of the burn =
y ing buildings and George Browns
y large wholesale and retail hard y
y ware store, a five-story structure, y
y is in flames.
y Five minutes later the fire =
= spread east as we'll as west and =
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= wholesale clothing house on the =
= fifth floor, and that structure is
= burning fercely.
y Chattanooga has been wired for =
y help.
/ = All Cay street property on the y
= east side of that between Com y
= merce and Wall avenues is in >
/ y danger of destruction.
= = = > = = = > = y y
I
II NOXvILLE, Tenn, Dec 22--Fire
/ X which broke out at 1870 o'clock
this morning in the four-story
factory building of the Knoxville
/ knitting mills on Commerce avenue
| quickly spread to surrounding struc-
/ lures. and at SIS threatens to destroy
/ property that will bring the total loss
I'D in the neighbOrhOOd OF SLOUouOV-
/ The burning building is just across the
/ street from the central fire station ana
! no sooner had the men of this station
turned out than a general alarm went
/ out, calling the entire fire department
! TO the scene
IN a very short time the large build
ing was completely Quilted and the nre
had spread both east and west, taxing
the building occupied by Broyles, Nc
: Clelland & Lackey on the west ana
that occupied by the David Commls-
sion company on the east.
Shower of Sparks.
The flames. had eaten their way
through the walls on each side and
made the first evidence Of their ap-
! pearance into nsw fields by shower
of flying sparks and falling embers,
Gaining good fOOthOld by means OF
these auxiliary fires the blaze made
second grand burst, hurting hremen IN
the rear of the buildings TO the ground
by the force of the explosions caused
by the terrific heat
At 2:3O O'Clock the buildings on the
east side of the street, between Com
merce and Wall avenues, seemed 10 De
doomed. Water was poured on the
threatened structures. but turned into
steam as soon as IL hit the red-hoC
1 walls. A few minutes later the large
five-story building of the George Brown
Hardware company, located on Cay
street. caught at the rear Of the fifth
floor The fire soon spread through H.
dropping to the fourth floor, then down
to the third. until the building was to-
tally ruined.
Call For Help,
In the meantime on the east Of the
+ burning structure. the building OF the
, large wholesale clothing firm OF Nc
Teer. Hood & Co. had caught IRE on
the top floor, the fifth, and It, too was
/ 0eAOUEGu
At 2-3O the Davies Furniture COM
panv's building was in flames Ihen
followed the plant of the ClalDorne
Tate & Cowan Clothing company.
Chattanooga was asked for aid al
2:3O. and the answer came than an en-
CINE company would soon leave that
! T2p to $3.50 the loss is fully 100000
probably more. All the firms are vel
insured
More Buildings Doomed
The buildings which are doomed are
/ occupied by Haynes, Henson q Co.
wholesale boots and shoes, at 81
2 Cav street; Gillespie, Shields q Co
Y / wholesale clothiers. and Browne
5 PAYNE. Beaver < Co., wholesale dry
e goods. at 31S, 800 and 80 Gay street
4 If these burn, another million VIII o.
e added TO the loss.
r rive thousand. people are at the scene
= of the fire at this writing The burn
= ing of the big Brown store was mad'
s dOubIy dangerous owing to the larg'
n number of cartridges stored IN II
n which exploded like punches OF ire
|, crackers
e One Building Saved.
! At s.35 O'Clock the fire crossed Ga.
: street westward, but the attention o
the firemen was directed to the blazini
: building and II was saved
. At $40 il looks as if the fire VIII no
: spread farther south than the Brown
j Hardware company and the fremel
a have a better chance of getting 1t un
i der control than at any time since 1t
< origin
The faling-in of the Brown BUILDING
o and the explosion of a quantity of dy
y Mantle was a gOdsend to the hreme
and they have taken advantage Of tn
s opportunity.
Il The entire service. street cars, cleo
e trio lights and telephones are para
e lyzed. poles have been burned an
e wires fallen by hundreds.
" Origin a Mystery.
No one has been more than slight
hurt. The origin of the IRE is a mys
terry.
Charles Parham. owner of the Knox
4 vile Pants company, in which build
ing the ire started. visited his plac
le Sunday. He says there has been n
It fire in it since Saturday
D Ahis disastrous fire is within 800 fee
,e of where the 81, 200 600 IRE of 1SS
Is started The same property destroye