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Show iiis mm umm I ' Upper Part Of Main Bingham Totally Destroyed By Fire Of Unknown Origin-Property Carried Very Little Insurance ; Notorious "Redlight". District Completer Wiped Out Some . Business Men Planning To Rebuild If New Buildings Are T Erected They Will Be Fireproof Fire Departments Did 'Excellent Work And Prevented Flames From Tievouring The Main Business Section Of The Town I""-- : The people of Bingham were arous-v arous-v .-... ed about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning by the greatest and most disastrous fire in the hlBtory of the town which entailed a loss estimated all the way - from J150.0OO to $300,000. The fire originated shortly before 4 o'clock in the Union rooming house or the Union pool hall. It had gained con-' con-' siderable headway before it was dis covered and wiped out the entire upper end ,of the town, burning prac-' prac-' tically everything on both sides of the street fronrthe Europe rooming house ; to the last building on the street ' The fire alarm was given at 3:50 , ' and by 4 the fire companies had the water turned on the blaze. However, by that time the fire had gained such headway that it-was Impossible to save any of the buildings nearby and attention was directed to Bave the lower part of town. iBy desperate ef-l ef-l " forts it was checked before reaching the Europe rooming house' though most of the furniture there was jirac- 4 tically ruined by the flood of water. . -? The buildings burned on the west side of the street were the Union 1 "4 . rooming house, the Bingham bar, the ' S Great Greece coffee house, the Bingham Bing-ham rooming house, the . California bar, the California rooming house, an unoccupied pool hall, Arcade candy store, a two story building in the rear, small building belonging to the town, the Colorado bar, the Colorado ' rooming house, Utah copper cafe, the Chinese laundry, ten ciibs and the w HydroElectric copper plant. On the T ' east side were two resident"! Le-. Le-. onging to ' S. S. Jones,' -tit Atlicns roomies house, the Paris rooming house,' the Paris pool hall, the New, Life eol'fe-o house, unoccupied restaurant res-taurant and bar with rooming house overhead and the old California boarding board-ing house. The big losers on buildings build-ings were Johi. Contralto, James Ro-' Ro-' lando, p. H Pitchios, Jlmpson and Bunker, Pete Murano, John and Jerre fc - - Caraghlno. ) f In addition to the loss of buildings a great number of tenants lost all their household furnishings and a number of the rooming houses wore . , elaborately furnished with very cost ly material. Also a great number of - poor families lost all they had and were left homeless. The fire spread so rapidly that few people had time to carry out any of their belongings. , All the buildings with the exception of the California and the Athens buildings wore wooden structures. These two buildings were of concrete and brick and wee modern In every respect, but owing to their location the flrement were unable to save them, . Fortunately no Uvea were lost, but many people escaped from -their, rooms with only theif. night clothing . and a number had to escape through windows. As a result of the fire several sev-eral hundred people were left home-, home-, less and penniless and a great many employees were thrown out of work. When the fire first started the wind was blowing down the canyon, but soon shifted in the opposite direction and this made it possible, to save the . business "wctlon of the town. The ' firemen fought with the most heroic r "" courage and by their efforts the fire was checked at the Chinese laundry, although this building was adjoined by other wooden structures. Among the places which art desig- nated as parlor houses, all wire wiped out with the exception of two and cne ' 'of them was badly damaged. Many of the occupants of these places went to Salt Lake. . The loss in all cases was very great as only a few people carried insurance 'and tboflb who did had only small amounts. But the greatest losers were the tenants themselves because they lost everything they had and . they carried no insurance. - . It Is understood that mot of the structures: will be rebuilt and some are now making plan's for th!g purpose. pur-pose. There is a great demand In town for some restrictions In regard to the kind of buildings that shall be x , erected. The hope that this end of . town may next have modern fireproof buildings. In this connection it may be necessary to have the charter of the town changed in Buch a manner as to grant the municipal authorities power to regulate this matter. A number of the people in business there say that they will not reopen as many of them will be liable for military service and they would hardly hard-ly have t'me to get well started again before being called into service. The origin of the fire is unknown. Some were inclined to the belief that it vaa c' ir.;.er.dlary origin, but ho far nothing hns been brought tc light to Y uimUiit.ute tlila theory. , Those who are left da t'tute rhnu!d and doubtless will receive substantial aid from the gonerous pegple of the cam p. |