Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-03 | Page 4 | Fire Department Busy While Labor Parades

fIRE DEPARTMENT BUSY WHilE lABOR PARADES Two Fires During Street Spectacle Spec Spec- Old Old Valley House Is Damaged F The fire tire passed Its holiday hol- hol Jda day iday yesterday fighting an unusually large Jarge arge number of ot dangerous fires While the Labor da day parade was winding around the downtown streets the tho home of or J J. Butcher South Third East street caught fire tire The loss Joss was 20 While the parade was going north on State street Mrs William 30 Greenland avenue filled a lamp and amid set It t on n n. hot stove The Time loss was wag va with no insurance the building building- being practIcally burned to the ground The house louse house was outside tho the city limits but the auto engine arrived In time to saVe much property A A. small mill mUl owned by B. B Heinrich alongside the home lome was also destroyed While making the tho run the heavy auto uto engine struck a big hiS Newfoundland log dog owned by George Sed dens Tho The dog was taken to the tho police station but had to be shot Shortly before 5 o'clock the this old Valey Valle Valley Val- Val le ley ey house at the corner of West Temple Tem Tem- pIe Jle and South Temple streets took fire Heavy leavy clouds of smoke e emanated from the he roof root Only the prompt arrival of ot the he fire tire apparatus saved the ancient building a The he roof root was practically demolished de de- de- de and the water from the thc hose trickling down the stairs tore loose huge chunks of plaster from the aged ased ceilings The Valley house is one of ot the oldest oldest oldest old old- est buildings In the city and is owned b by the Mormon church In its older and more prosperous days it was one of ot the tho principal hostelrIes In the Rocky Hocky Mountain belt and has had such distinguished dig dis- Hu lod lodgers ers as General Grant and arid Artemus Ward ard under Its roof root At present it Is a lodging house and is under charge of Charles Brown The origin of ot the tho fire could not be ascer- ascer i tamed edl The Damage amounts to about covered ered by insurance