The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-08

TO hastily fee, though not until Valu-
able records had been removed.
shortly thereafter the Continental
Trust c0mpaDy's fourteen-stOry build
ing took fire. A block below the Amer
lean Newspaper building was envel-
oped in clouds Of sparks and burning
splinters So that at this hour it IS
certain that the Herald and American
viii NOT get out issues tomorrow.
Meanwhile. the sun has been arranging
TO print its tCmOFrOW's edition in its
job Office, which is situated at dis
tant point from the path of the fire.
The financial district, including the
chief banking and brokerage firms on
South and German streets. seems to
be now doomed, and scores Of the city's
leading fnanciers and business men
are scurrying in and out Of their Of
fees. bearing packages or placing val
Uables in COnyeyances.
During all these hours the pyrotech-
mic display has been magnificent and
imposing beyond the power Of painter
10 depict At this hour vast columns
OF flame are shooting skyward at vary
ing points Of the compass, and the
armament is one vast pTismatiC ocean
of golden and silver-hued sparks. Great
multitudes Of people line the streets.
3 awe-struck with the panorama which
is being enacted before their eyes.
Operators Forced TO Flee.
At 1910 o'clock the roof Of the build
ing occupied by the Associated Press
took fire and the employees were CON-
| PEELED TO vacate. though they had time
20 take away with them their tele-
graph instruments. typewriters and
other valuable equipment. They found
refuge in a branch Office OF the West
ern Union company on Gay street The
/ prospect Is that this office viii have
to be vacated in a few minutes, as
the flames are breaking west and east,
and volumes If sparks and blazing
cinders are flying in every direction
At this hour the fire is absolutely
beyond control and all occupants Of
buildings in the center of the city are
rapidly removing their valuables.
/ The city hospital, corner of Calvert
and Pleasant streets. is removing 20
other hospitals as rapidly as possible
7 the twenty-four patients in that insti-
tuition. Seventeen injured were brought
TO this hospital. most Of them fremen.
+ They We're suffering from burns, scalds
and decorations. Nearly every physi-
I clan In the city is in the fire district.
/ So far as known at this hour no one
/ has been killed.
Soldiers Called Out.
/ Detaehments Of the Fourth and Fifth
I regiments have been called out and
/ are patrolling the streets in the vlcin-
+ ity Of the fire. guarding property and
7 keeping order.
Fortunately, thus far the condagra-
( ton has not reached the residence por-
( ton of the city. but fires are breaking
+ out in East Baltimore, and the indica-
+ tions are that the residence streets are
doomed to be invaded.
The indications are that not a single
+ morning newspaper viii be able to get
out an issue tomorrow morning, with
= the possible exception Of the sun
which has an auxiliary plant There
are five morning papers here-three
] English and two German.
The baltimore & Ohio railroad office
building has been destroyed. and so
! has the Maryland Institute Of Art
/ building
At 1885 o'clock the temporary Gus
4 tom house adjoining the postofice
caught fire. One hundred and fifty po-
licemen from Philadelphia have ar
rived 10 assist the Baltimore police.