Show fire at american fork shortly after af tor I 1 this morning mornin 9 a fire broke out in the tranie frame structure once the stand of james jallie j Chip mans mercantile business but then occupied by A K thornton liquor dealer the alie building was located on oil merchant street and possessed all the qualities of a firetrap fire trap as did the other housos houses immediately surrounding it excepting the front part of peter adamsons Adam sois saloon there in a row of frame buil buildings dinge stretching from tho the millar Nl illar housa almost to the post office rad had there boon the sli ghost wind the fire would havo have made a clean swoop but as it was mt mi thorntons thorn tons stand and add that of E 11 boloy a butcher alone were burned george crookston crook ston marshal and alma alina rowley deputy were the first to disc discover vor tho the flames they were on their usual night duty and said that whoa when they first reached the tha scene a few buckets of water would have saved the building there had been no fire in that house during the day and the tho saloon had boon been closed two hours the fire however did not start in tho the saloon proper but in a store room under tho flo same roof at one tl almo mo it boomed impossible to save SAO mr air Adara adamsons saloon and that would also mean the shooting gallery of E hunter roberts Bio Biot thors hOrg drug store alfred dunkleys dunkless Dunk leys millinery establishment and possibly the millar hotel for almost a half an hour the entire roof of tho framo frame portion of mr adamsons saloon was a sheet of flamos flames the rafters inside were also ablaze abl Laze energetic work alono saved it goods carried into tho street from most all the building in immediate danger the barber shop of ambros shipley was torn to pieces mr air thornton has a foundation on which ho be expected to build within a few months ife he had a largo stock of wines and liquors iu his hie collar from the sale of which he be hoped 4 to be financially anci ally aided in brocking crocking croc oro king efing his new structure he reports his hisa loss at 2500 E H boley probably ed a loss of ambros shipley in tho neighborhood of 75 peter betor adamson probably 75 0 and james chipman about M A making without more or less leas in breakage brea through moving goods a loss of nothing was insured thoro there is scarcely as much as an old sleuth theory of tho the origin of tho the fire adeep AMERICAN FORK fori may provo prom en enquirer I 1 |