The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-29
\ MAHA, Jan. %. . a ma fire,
which at this hour has DESTROYED

! n MAHA, Jan. %. a. ma fire,
~ which at this hour has destroyed
property estimated at approx
] mately 100000, and is still burning
| started at 1870 o'clock last night from
| what is believed to have been an over
| heated stove in the commission house
Of c. H Mullen & Co, located at Elev-
enth and Howard streets The flames
| spread so rapidly that Chief Salter of
the hre department at once turned in
| a general alarm, which brought the
entlre department Of the city TO The
scene. not, however. until the flames
had gotten quite beyond control Five
commission houses were located in the
building where the flames were start
ed, and all of these were enveloped in
very short time. In the four stories
above and covering a quarter of a
block was located the stock of a whole
sale dry goods concern, which fur
nished the flames with infiammab bic
material and added to their fury.
Big Buildings AhIaze.
Before the firemen were organized
the entire building, covering a quar-
ter of block, was a mass of flames
Adjoining buildings. occupied by other
concerns of considerable Importance
were in the path of the fire and were
soon ablaze- Across the alley to the
north five-stOry building occupied
by a large manufacturing and job
bing shoe concern caught in the upper
stories and the fire soon spread to the
lower floors, and the entire stock was
destroyed.
The building in which the fire start
ed was located in the wholesale dis
trfct and contiguous to il were "A large
NUMBER OF large jobbing houses.
Continued to Spread.
As soon as the fremen discovered the
commission houses and dry goods
stocks could not be saved they di-
Verted their attention to adioinfne
buildings. Despite their efforts how
ever, the flames continued to spread.
They finally ate their way into the
building occupied by the Porter-Rier-
son-Hoobler company, where was
stored larke stock of chemists ma
terials. There were a number of ex-
plosions, which tended to reinforce the
fury OF the flames. The Carpenter Pa
per companys building was next
threatened, and firenen at once III
rected their attention TO tho structure
starting number of streams Dlsvinc
on the roof and other parts of the
building.
Started at 1910.
The fire started at 1910 tonight in tho
fruit commission house Of J. n Sr,-,Iar 81
Eleventh and Howard streets ana a.
though a general alarm brought the entire
inre department 10 the scene, the flames
nao Eathered such Roadway before the
firen1en arrived that they could not he
checkcd- They spread rapidly to adioin-
ing business places in the same building.
and by 80 had entirely DESTROYED a solid
half block of five-story buildings hetUeon
Harvey and Howard streets and Eleventh
street ana the alley in the rear At that
hour the firemen directed their efforts
70 prevent the spread of the flames to
the immense wholesale paper house of
Carpenter q Co. and to the main buiIdinr
of the NJ. +. Smith Dry Goods Company,
I he former just across the alley from the
burning structures and the l-tter directly
across Howard street.
Flames Spread Quickly.
Despite the fact that the entire force
was at work on the burning buildings
with the entire equipment of the citv fire
department. throwing half a hundred
streams on the interior of the building.
Continued on Pc. ~