| Show AGED SHOEMAKER PENNED IN FIRETRAP FIRE I I TRAP AP IS SLOW SLOWLY Y ROASTED TO D ATH J J J. J J. J Ruban Ruben Ruban Salt Lakes Lake's pioneer shoemaker shoemaker shoemaker shoe shoe- maker and a familiar character on the streets of the city was burned to d death tl early this morning in his improvised home in a workshop and storehouse back beck of the St. St Elmo hotel A fire the origin of of which is Unknown unknown unknown un un- known I consumed the building and caught the aged aged man las as in a a- death deathtrap trap before he could escape from the building He Ife- was found by the firemen firemen fire fire- men when they opened he door to his ds S Sro ro room m to throw a stream of water into the building flat fiat on on his back hi his knees doubled up and his feet ag against the door Appearances Appearance indicated that Ruban suffocating with the smoke had bad struggled struggled glad from crom his bed to the thedoor door and then fallen back exhausted where he lay I slowly cremating until the door was pushed open by the firemen A crowd of people stood about the burning building awaiting the arrival of the firemen and it Is believed d that I if they had known that Ruban Ruan an was in inside inside inside in- in side he could have been rescued in time timeto to have saved his life Capt Workman of f department No 1 I and Capt Crosby of chemical No 1 I. dragged the charred bodY bodt from the burning building Life Life- was LS extinct and the features were unrecognizable Th The aged mans man's clothing which h had hadnot hadnot not riot been removed when he lay down on his bed was hanging in shreds almost almost al at- al- al most burned off of his body Mr l Ruban Ruban Ruban Ru Ru- ban had been seen In in several Main l street saloons where he js Is well k known own after midnight last night It is be believed be- be that he returned to his room In irs Inan an en intoxicated condition and fell over on the bed beg bedy As he had been an In Inveterate in veter te smoker it was isid said aid that the fire was caused b by sparks sparkS' from his pipe which ma may have been lighted w when en he went to bed An Art examination of the scene of the fire this morning however shows that the blaze did not originate in the neIghborhood neighborhood neighborhood neigh neIgh- of the bed but in an adjoining ng section of the building where a buggy and some baled h hay y had been stored It is now believed that tha t the aged shoemaker shoe shoe- maker maker- in his drunken condition condition al allowed allowed at- at lowed the ashes from his pipe to fall in inthe inthe inthe the hay strewn about th the outside of the the building building from which the fire was communicated to the more material ble in the central part of the i building g. g The body was wag removed to O'Donnell's undertaking establishment in a patrol wagon Uncle Jimmie Ruban was born in I 1 Geneva Switzerland seventy seven sev seven nty-seven I years ago and sp spent nt his early days in Paris Pans where he learned his shoemakers shoemaker's shoemakers shoemaker's shoemakers shoemaker's kers ker's trade He waS was the th first convert to the tha Mormon f faith ralth ith from rom France After Afley serving on several missions inE in E Europe rope he came to America He stayed some some time in New ev York and in 1867 came to tt S Salt lt I hake Dake ke h ha had lived ever since foll following wing hi hl flade rade He was Brigham Youngs Young's shoemaker ker rec receiving ivi g gas as high at 25 for a pair of shoes Ruban Ruban Ruban Ru Ru- ban was hs van an n accomplished linguist and gave valuable help to Brigham Young in the translation of the Book of l I Mormon rmon Into tl the e French tongue Ruban was separated rpm his hs wife eighteen years ago arid since that time has lived about his among his friends His best fri friend pd was Sharp Sharr Walker who had allowed the old sh to live in the building in which he met his dea death death li for the last five years Six children children chil chil- dren survive him four of whom live JIve in inthis inthis inthis this city Mrs l Julian Riley Mrs Will wm Firman Mrs Lizzie Ellery and Miss riss Claire Ruben Ruban One married daughter lives in Los Angeles while a son lives in St. St Paul The b building was almost totally destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de at a Go loss of A stock of firecrackers stored In the west end of the building opposite that that- occupied by Ruban Ruben w was s badly damaged by water I at a loss of mf about I |
