The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-15
FIRE SUFFERERS
bEWA|L LOSSES
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the dwening houses on the northern
and eastern sides of the block. At this
end the hremen succeeded in stamping
out the fire before il reached any of
the endangered homes
But while the flames were eating
their way ~northward, the blaze was
also spreading southwark toward the
warehouse. At the northeastern door
of The warehouse were piled twenty
five barrels of paint. Attaches of the
warehouse say that this was fre-proof
paint, but Assistant Fire Chief Crosby
declares that il was ordinary tar roof
ing paint. Whatever 1t was. 1t was
burned. and only the iron hoops and
some fragments of the lower barrels
We're left after the confiagration.
Assistant Chief Crosby says that
these barrels of paint became ignited
from the fire In the vehicle shed. As
the barrels broke open n burst into
hafnss h burning paint flowed into
the arehous basement through two
noles, left for ventilation, which were
back of the pile of barrels. Marks on
the brick were pointed out as showing
where the flaming liquid made its way
into the basement.
Below, Immediately nde these air
holes. was stored a mass OF furniture
and about 125 pianos. All Of the arti-
cles In that part of the basement were
vanished and OF an infammable char
acter. The firemen say that these
must have quickly caught fire. setting
the whole basement in flames. AS the
IRE was raging holly at the northeast
ern ccor. ii was impossible for the fire
nShterS TO get streams of water into
the basement. from that direction, and
1t was equally difficult to approach
from the western doors, ever had Il
been known that the air holes existed
and that the paint was streaming into
the lower regions. y
Manager Redman Undaunted.
Manager Redman stated that al
though he had been hard hit by the
fire, he was still undaunted and would
at once resume business. During the
a he bought a team and arranged
for the purchase of other horses to fill
the places of the thirty-nine burned to
death in the barn. He also wired to
Denver for vans.
Il will SUI business by Monday"
said Mr.. Redman. In the past / have
met with success in Salt Lake and the
future is full of still better promise. 1
am not discouraged"
Mr.. Redman said hat work of re-
building the warehouse would be COM
menced at ono At present the six
feet of water in the basement is be-
ing pumped out. When this pumping
is completed, the mass of debris in the
basement will be removed in the pres
ence of persons who had silverware
N other valuable possessions in stor-
age. Some of these persons hope to
at least recover the melted metal. 9th
ers, who lost treasured articles. still
cling TO the hope that these may ave
escaped the flames and wish to be
present when the basement is cleared,
thinking that they may recognize their
broken possessions, even if broken n
fire scared.
When his work is ended, wOrknlen
will commence the reconstruction of
the warehouse. The Redman compan
has a five-year lease upon the ground
from the Aaron Keyser Investment
company, which will defray the cost of
rebuilding the burned buildings. Aaron
Keyser is nov in Orange, n. j.
Until the barr is rebuilt Mr.. Redman
will use the stabl in the rear of his
home at 25S East Second South street.
Serious Individual Losses.
The story of the Individual losses
YOU be a long one. The 125 pianos
destroyed was a blow to almost as
man families. In a few instances two
pianos had been placed in storage by
a single individual, but most of the
instruments were the sole treasures of
that sort of different families.
Mrs. r. F. Werner of 216 South Sec
ond East street lost two pianos, furni-
ture, pictures and clothing valued at
SIC, 900. Mrs. Werner had arranged to
have her possessions moved to a room
ing house when the fire came and de-
stroyed everything.
Frank Pierce, before going to Wash
ington TO assume the duties of assist
ant secretary of the interior, left his
household furniture in storage and it
was destroyed in the fire.
Mrs. Thomas Homer lost, among 9TH
er things, a handsome silver service,
valued at $500, which had been present.
ed to her when Mr.. Homer retired from
office as exalted ruler of the Elks.
Mrs. Homer recently went to Califor-
mia and left many valuable possessions
in storage during her absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Clay Brownlee
lost a numbe of heirlooms which had
been treasured in their families. Their
monetary loss viii reach 81, 900 and
there was no Insurance. Among other
things destroyed in the fire was a cut
glass punch bow and some egg shell
cups which had been presented TO Mr..
5 Ialhef Dy the statesman,
Henri Clay, after whom Mr.. Brownlee
was named. There were other articles
which had been handed down from
generation to generation from the time
one Of Mr.. Brownlee's ancestors was
postmaster of Dublin, Ireland, a cen
fury ago
Training School Rug.
Mrs. r. c. Woodruff, with Mrs. X. A.
Scheid, owned part of the Kimball fur
niture and heirlooms which were
burned in the fire. This collection con-
sisted of articles taken from the old
Kimball home.