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Show OGDEN SUFFERS HEAVYVFIRE LOSS BLAZE DESTROYS PEERY BUILD. ING AND THREATENED TO DEMOLISH DE-MOLISH ENTIRE SECTION Every Bit of Apparatus In City Struggles Strug-gles to Control Flames; Police and Voluteers Give Aid; Store Stock Ruined Ogden. Flames consumed a total ot $305,000 In property and goods here early Thursday morning, when the most spectacular blaze In local history his-tory gutted the D. II. Feery building on Washington avenue, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-tlfth streets, completely destroying stocks and furnishings ot the Last & Thomas Thom-as department store, the Wistaria candy store and the Arlington hotel, Housed In the structure. Defective wiring was given as cause of the blaze. Only ubout one-half of the loss is covered by Insurance. For hours, every available bit of firelightlng ap-paratus ap-paratus in the city struggled grimly to prevent threatened destruction of the entire business section of the city. At dawn, the lire was still raging along the walls of the destroyed de-stroyed building, while firemen, pn-ice pn-ice and volunteer helpers directed .heir efforts to protection of adjoining property. The fire broke out at 11:25 o'clock Wednesday night In a display win. low ot tbo department store. Pass-ersl.y Pass-ersl.y turned in an alarm, but before are apparatus could reach the scene tlte flames, fed by highly combustible stocks, had gotten beyond control. As .he conflagration raged, police and iremen aided occupants of the building build-ing to escape. Hose lines were run in from every angle and steady streams of water poured into the leaping leap-ing flames and soaked walls of ad-'.'icent ad-'.'icent structures In the hope to save hem from the destructive element. 'ky Illumination from the gigantic vre attracted thousands of residents, rom whom volunteer workers were ressed into service. Contents of the iillding not actually touched by the re were rendered valueless by smoke i ml water, while tumbling walls completed com-pleted the work of demolition. |