The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-09

? and there was o. succession Of expo.
I sion~ with She bursting QUO OF tat
J flames At times the smoke rolled Uu
and threw great black clouds over frs
ruins. Pratt street for many squares
! Is almost impossible Ly reason OF THE
+ huge piles OF masonry ana the water
( with which tie fire companies flooded
/ th8t section The electric wires ere "a
/ tangled network. and c1e trolley wires
are down I'm every direction Al O'Don-
nel's wharf. where q freight station
/ Of the North Central road is located.
! the flames fef ala day ON the indian
T mabIe trimmings OF the annex l1 tine
/ power house Of the United Street rail-
/ way. the main building or which was
! Quilted early this mornius- The walls
+ of both buildings. however. remain in
/ tact.
} Only Ruins Remain
The large buildings Of the Miller Fer
/ tiIizer company. the Bragener OIL CONF
pany. g. n. Robinson. dealer fn seeds
7 and the Marta Wagner company, can
7 hers and packers. opposite The sIir
Z from the power house. were destroyed
and the ruins burned Throughout the
{ night Many Of the occupants of iIl-
fated Pratt street were saloon keepers
and dealers i'm second hand goods
( There is nothing today 10 indicate
that these places ever existed. save for
/ brick piles All the buildings ct Du-
l gan's wharf were destroyed. The
I Hutchinson Feed concern at this pOin-
is also in ruins. Stretching from here
down East and West Falls avenue
were q number OF business establish
ments Among these the Lime Ce-
/ ment compauy's plant and COckran's
ice house were burned The large four
story building Of the Mccormick Drug
company, at East Fails avenue and
Pratt street, was ruined. The William
Tell house, a saloon and hotel at Fest
Falls avenue and Pratt street; the
Hoffman house. another hotel l-ear BY
the T J. Myers large fve-stoTy pack
ing plant and the W W. Boyer pack
ing plant were destroyed
The Commercial building. a siE-stor5-
I structure at the corner Of Lombard
and Gay streets, stretching over half
q block. is destroyed, but the vaults
are safe.
/ The Fayette street EpisCOp.-l church.
one Of the oldest buildings in the
city. at the corner of Gay and Fay
cite streets, on the border of the fire
district. has nothing but the outside
walls left.
Reduced TO Ashes.
On Cay street. between Lombard and
/ Water streets. two wholesale liquor
r esta blishments, those of the Jarrett
! Williams company, q fve-story- build
Ing. and the Wilson Distilliug com
= psnv. also a fve-sto-y structure are
reduced to ashes, while q front wall
is all that is left of the five-slory
wholesale liquor plant of Kuhn e son
P The Cummings & Melville distiliery.
? another five-stOry building; the whole
sale liquor establishment Of BroadbeoE
7 & Co, at Water and Gay streets and
S other similar establishments on Cay
p street were destroyed. The whole
2 sale candy manufactOTy Of the Lauer
{ & Suter company. at Lombard ana
2 Frederick streets. embracing three
houses on Lombard and two on Fred
erick. each Of them q fOur-stOry str1lc-
ture. went next. The infaumabie
o. character of the contents Of these
s / buildings will give an idea Of the
S herceness Of the blaze Spirits fed the
- / wood. and the heat was terrible.
e I Buildings sprang into living flames be
r fore fire touched them. and brick ana
- stone and mortar crUmbled like cha4k-
e A complete list of the buildings de
r. strOyed and the firms burned out would
- be a business director of the burned
e. area
Work OF the E1remen-
All of the out of town fire comns
< nies. because Of the utter exhaustion
2 of the local men, were given free
- hand during the morning and early
$ afternoon. More than score of com
b panies were here from New York Phil-
g. adelphia. Wilmington, Washington and
,. small towns within a radius Of fifty
5 miles Of Baltimore. Their duty was
O. 30 check the flames iu their onward
5 march s0uthward This was a rather
difficult task. as both sides of jones
Falls are lined with lumber yards and
old buildings, which proved 10 De
L | finder boxes. At every street rif7
10 stream is spanned by a small bridge
2 and on each bridge Two and some
q times three engines were standing
t. taking water from the creek.
e The New York Gremeu, who were gre
y last to arrive. were the last Io stand
1t the bruut Of the flames. ana when Inc
s. FIRE began to burn ITSELF out i'm the coal
70 yard OF the American Ice company
'e seven OF their steamers were backed
f. up against . bulkhead of the Patspa7-
pa smoldering Piles.
y The burned district. comprising 81.
acres Of a roughly drawn right ausIs
- triangle. tonight IS piled with eeap=
i, / and masses OF brick, stone 'tiio ~tl-
h. iron from which occasional waits 81 tl-
{. more substantial structures tower
scue seemingly ready TO fall 1T alT 81
- slant Flames stin rising froF0 ula i
f. O. the ruined buildings and the l}urniIli
4 gas from the broken mains gave iieh
h for the firemeu who are pressing stead
r. lily inward from the border of tn
d. burned section.
I'll The cordons Of guards comp.ctely en-
! circIine the fire area have restricted
7- the number Of spectators 7Fltnin
err minimum. ropes beins strcLcilee acres
he the entering streets Win iae sgiae
re members oil the federal ana ratt5na
II guard on duty to keep back the c1o f't
In / Ina the crowds were found nos oHiy in
babitants OF Baltimore. but many SIS
itors from washington. Annapolis, Nfi
mington and surrounding towns. eye
~ as FAR aOqv as Philadelphia fn