The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-13
4 DEAD, Il HURT IN
FIRE At PORTLAND
Business District Near MOrri-
son Street Bridge Destroyed
With Loss of $4,000.
WATCHMAN LOSES HIS LIFE
TRYING TO SAVE HORSES
COnfagratiOn Starts in Saloon
Under the Alpine LOdg-
ing-HOuse.

PORTLAND, Or. Feb. 12.-Four known
dead, eleven persons seriously and some
possibly fatally injured and a financial
loss of $1,000 briefly summarizes the re-
suit Of an carly morning conhagratlon
which wiped out the little business dis
trict close 20 the east end OF the Nor
rison street steel bridge today.
The Known Dead.
EDWIN DALEY, aged years. son of
Mr. and Mrs. l.. 4. Daley
NATHAN p. YOUNG. aged 80 years.
watchman for the East Side Transfer
TWO UNIDENTIFIED, whose bodies
were so badly charred that they are un-
recognizable. One may be a woman.
IRA COOPER proprietor of a lodging
mousse is reported missing and IL may be
that he is one OF the unidentified bodie,
now In the morgue.
List of Injured.
Mrs. NJ; Bailey. 2A East Morrison, face
and hands seriously burned.
Floyd Bailey. 24 East Morrison. age
H. face and hands seriously burned
Mrs. Nettlc Browne. a widow 2glIa East
Morrison street. dislocated her hip wnen
she jumped from the second story
Walter Browne. severely burned ard
bruised.
Mrs. Nan Edmunds. 29l,S East Morrison
street. had rooms with Mrs. Browne. She
fractured her ribs when she Jumped from
the second story.
Mrs Mae MacIrvin, lodging house keep
cr at the corner of Morrison and Water
streets, jumped from second story VIM
dow, back and hip badly snran.d
ro8nod R a. q, 6S6eoek, E,,,I E, Sherlock, Mich
dow
Fred Kruger, Detroit Mich. LETT wrist
fractured and back sprained. jumped
from second story.
Heroic Work OF Firemen.
tl,.
greater was due To the work OF the fire.
men, vino rescued many parsous from
precarious positions Firemcn rcInoved
ing buildings
TWO hrcmen were partially sunocated
uuIihS thc progress OF the Contla grafton.
inc cause of the hrc has not been de-
teTmlned II started I'm the Mount Hood
saloon and rapidly consumed that rluce
ana the lodglng-houSc above IT, in which
a majority OF those Killed and injured
were sleeping
The Losses.
East Side Transfer company. A F.
1900. 'A'OS'
D. r Mccartney saloon. loss. 5000; in
WireWorks. loss 5000 insurance son
M. }. Murphy. plumber. loss S2iOO; In
surance, $500 80
Rock Springs Coal company Office
lire and water, Insured
Bridge cafe, loss 500; uninsured
Woods cigar and confectionery loss
SZ1cOi some insurance
Alpine lodging house. loss, 5000.
Watchman's Awful Fate.
Twenty-Five horses. property of tho
East Side Transfer company, were de-
stroycd In the fire. Watchman Young's
death was one of the thrilling spectacies
Of the IRE. He had made several trips
into the transfer ComDany's stable en-
deayoTing 10 save the horses when he
was cut OFF by the flames He made hls
way TO one of the upper windows. which
he broke. Looking out he waved his
hands to the crowd below and cried:
Goodbye, boys. l can't get out this
time md fell back into the flames.
Firemen Have Close Call.
Many iiremen had narrow escapes from
injury. The district burned is partly
built over Il sink and as the plnnkInE
along the sidewalks burned the positions
OF the nremen became precarlous
In endeavorinG to save some of the
dodgers from the rooming- house over the
Mount Hood saloon, two frcmen were
overcome by smoke and were saved from
death by their comrades. The wooden
surface of the Morrison street steel