The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-19
REIGN Of TERROR
VISITS OGDEN
Citizens Excited Over inCen-
diary Fires and BurglarieS
Bad Men at Work.

Excitement verging on a reign of ter
ror existed in Ogden Saturday night,
when three fires all of incendiary origin.
and four attempted burglaries occurred
within three hours. Both the fire com
panies were called out, and for more than
two hours were busy fighting three fires
One of the fires was the stockade and
patrol wagon house, which adjoins the
central police station. The fire, which
was evidently started by gasoline, caused
great excitement at the station while the
department was at two other fires. Both
firemen and policemen attending the fires
are strong in their opinion that all were
started by some of the thugs who were
arrested Thursday night on the charge of
Vagrancy, but were given orders to get
out OF town by Judge Murphy on FIJI
day morning. Another theory is advanced
that the fires were the result of con-
certed action on the part of members of
very tough gang of thugs infesting Og-
den at the present time, and who did the
work for the purpose of being able to
have a clear field for their burglary OPP
erations while the policemen and firemen
were at the fires.
The city is overrun with criminals and
undesirables who have been driven out of
San Francisco, Denver and Salt Lake.
There have been several cases reported of
certain saloons on Twenty-fifth street
shielding and protecting many tough
characters.
In the fires last night the loss will
probably reach 5000 and but for the
prompt action of the department would
have been four times that amount. -Four
large draft horses were destroyed in two
of the fires. In the afternoon the depart
ment was called to the pickle factory,
where a small shed was destroyed The
loss is nominal.
At $40 in the evening the department
was called to Eccles' lumber yard, where
Tar~ Iur-r hn GrTp n
from the barn to a lumber shed and two
piles of shingles. In the barn were ten
horses, all of which were turned loose
and driven out. One of the horses broke
loose from the bunch and ran back into
the burning building and was destroyed
The loss at the lumber yard will reach
81, 800.
While the department was working at
the lumber blaze, a call came in from the
barn of the California bakery on Wall
avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twen-
ty-siXth streets. Wagons from depart
ment No. 2 also from the central sta
ton were sent to that fire Here three
horses, several tons of hay, a buggy and
several sets of harness were lost. the
barn and horses were the property OF
Henry J. Mueth, who said that, upon ar
irving home, he started for the barn to
lock the door. He noticed a small light
in the barn. and started toward II. When
within 100 feet of it a blaze shot up that
completely envelOped the barn. He threw
Ine stable uOOT open anu liASu W III
the horses out, but could not do so. He
saved two delivery wagons and number
of implements. When the department ar
rived, the barn and a number of adtoin-
ing sheds were in flames Before the
work here had been finished another call
was received from the police station that
the stockade was on fire. Both depart
ments turned their attention toward that
locality, and soon had the flames under
control. The loss will not exceed 500.
While the departments were at the two
fires the police were called out clear
across town to investigate number OF
attempted burglaries. Later in the even
ing they also made several trips to out
living districts where number OF at
tempted burglaries were reported. UP to
an early hour this morning no successful
burglaries had been committed, and no
arrests had been made.