Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-24
BAL T|MORE HAS
DISASTROUS FIRE
Worst That Has Visited Inflated
City Since Great CaIam-
ity of 1904.
THREE FIREMEN WERE KILLED
Sixteen Others Moro or Less Seriously
Injured-f'inancial Loss Estl-
mated at 100000.

Baltimore. Jan. A.-Fire today took
heavy toll from the members Of the
fire department of this city, three being
dead and is others more or less serious-
~ injured. The list OF the latter in
cludes Gorge Horton, chief OF the fire
department. who is in a serious condi-
ton. He has badly lacerated scalp
and internal injuries.
THE DEAD.
Lieut.. Frederick Hartman.
William b. Pugh.
Unidentified man. thought to DO Emil
NORM.
The financial damage is estimated at
100000
The blaze, which Is the worst that has
occurred In this city since the calamity
of 1904. started on the third floor of the
building in southeast corner of Holiday
and Saratoga streets. occupied by the
j. REGISTER Sons company, plumbers
supplies; the Baltimore Bell & Brass
company and the William l.. Hollins-
worth company, machinists.
Upon these three. the heaviest losses
fall. The fire had apparently been burn
cred The first alarm was quickly fol-
lowed by a general alarm. which
brought most of the fire apparatus in
the city to the scene. A strong wind
from the northwest of a very low tenn
perature made the work OF fighting the
fire more than ordinarily difficult and
the flames spread rapidly. In an in
credibly short time after the blaza
broke out of the windows on the Sara
toga street side of the REGISTER build
ing, and without the slightest warning,
a large section of the north wall fell. 1t
was this that scattered death and in
juries among the firemen, who were
working near the building A rain of
bricks also put out of commission a lad
der truck on which some of the men
had been working. Saratoga street, at
this point. narrows sharply.
LUCKY CHANGE OF WIND.
For time 1t seemed that the fire
would sweep diagonally through the
block to Gay street, and number Of
people living an that thOroughfare
moved their effects. Changes in the
wind, however, helped the firemen and
enabled them to confine the damage,
in addition to that already mentioned,
TO the plants Of the Il. b. Read & Sons
company, printers, and the Flynn V
Enrich company, mschinists located
street in the rear of the REGISTER
building. the Leonhardt Wagon COM
pany Saratoga street opposite the
building in which the fire originally
started the old city hall building and
the Zion school building. In the old
city hall building were valuable maps
and records of the water. typograph-
zeal and other city departments. These
We're removed to a place of safety un-
der the direction of Mayor j. Harry
Mahool.
When the walls of the REGISTER
building fell members of the fire and
police departments utterly Disregard
ed the fact that wall threatened
10 fall into Saratoga and worked frant-
ically to rescue their comrades.
The latter We're badly muulated and
the former We're in Some Instances,
almost stripped of their clothing.
While responding to the alarm, q
hose carriage and fie engine colllded
and five of tho men on the engine
were injured, one of thin seriously.