Show UI 01 W 03 lOSS AT t ANTHONY ATH OY t. t IS i Fanned by High Wind Early f Morning Blaze Develops Into Very Serious Conflagration Sweeping Business District f ij WATER PLUGS PLUGS' FROZEN APPARATUS S WORTHLESS I J Large targe Quantity of First Naj National National Na Na- j Bank Securities Believed Believed Be Be- Safe i in iTi Vault Vault Entire Entire 1 t Town Threatened for Time TimeS Timet C T. T ANTHONY Ida Jan 22 r. r S pJ Fire originating in the basement fo the Ross Hamer block at lt X o'clock this morning completely i that and aud several ot other er building builds builds' build build- s' s ings ing and for a time threatened the destruction on of the tho entire town The fl i J iJ I. I C nn l nf f it II r JO loss ios g is at aLL over P yz r r which about half is covered co by t t tince t f At 1 first practically no water wa was 1 ob obi obtainable ob- ob i on account of or Cr frozen zen pipes s but butt t f after five lve hours of ot desperate fighting 1 Ly by thc the fire department an and citizen clUzen volunteers volunteers vol vol- the thc spread of Ot the flames was checked ed at noon A high freezing wind added to the difficulties s. s Families Fam Fam- JIles Illes with their household goods fled before the threatening holocaust SCy- SCy era cral narrow narro E escapes resulted from tumbling tumbling- roofs an and walls Six firemen firemen fire fire- men were overcome from cold and cx- cx I ti Plug d Out Onto 1 A limited amount of ot water 1 was as ob- ob t aft after r fires had bad a been built around tub water plugs t to thaw them out L Th The ThC local fire tire department was wa assisted the equipment of r tho do- do il which w was z ruh d to th the I I scene III In one ono hour and thirty minutes minute after atler making five nye relays relas i J The rhe blaze originated in the basement of ot the tho Hamer block which Is owned by hy hyt It t former Congressman Ross floss Hamer Se Securities Se- Se of ot the First National S bank one of I f the occupants of or the building are arc believed cd safe in their vault The rhe Ch Chase e Furniture company and the therL rL J. D. D C. C Kruger buildings were en- en j f destroyed L Tho Ross nos Iamer block l. l ck was s the largest and finest building In St St. t. t Anthony Anthon An- An Anthony thon thony Besides the First National bank It was t as occupied b by the Consolidated Consoli f dated Wagon Machine company compan Bell BeU r Telephone company exchange c Attorney B. B H. H Miller Dr Gillespie dentist fam- fam lly fl of ot Mr Ir Hamer Soule Soule at attorneys at- at tOrnes tOrne's and Moon Valuable law lan libraries an and office of- of flee fice fixtures were a total loss The Tho Ther r Masonic sonic lod lodge c Odd Fellows and Modem Modern Mod Mod- em ern Woodmen had their headquarters In n this building and lost all their recI rec- rec I Tho loss Joss of the building and its cont contents con con- t tents tenth is estimated at The Thel l Cha Chase Chao e Furniture com company pan lost of ot which was covered b by inI In- In n- n I I Belvin Rice grocers grOC and the St. St Anthony Hardware company who occupied the next building north J suffered a a- loss of oC about 2000 Tho The Fen Ferry block the roof root of ot which collapsed ed suffered a a. damage damase of ot several i. i thousand and dollars All AU windows on the south side of ot the I treet from Riverside hotel to tho the Teton Continued on Pago Page 11 11 Column 1 L ST ANTHONY 1 FIRE DAMAGE rr 4 Tanned Fanned i a by f High lh b 0 Wind Early Morning Blaze Sweeps Business District 3 r Continued ed From rage Page One I s. s i PeAk p chronicle newspaper office wore were l broken by the heat heal x All AU business in III the thc town to own n was susen suspended sus sus- s ed t today toda and hundreds of or people en the ruins This Ihl was tho worst viewed IC history of or the town Iro in the tho The origin of oC the tho fire ire has haH ha not been heen Ascertained St St. Anthony Anthon is the I Fremont Fre- Fre rc- rc F mont county scat t and has a population f of about The county count Is la I the second seep sec sec- d richest In the state and the town ond ond p important distributing point for tor foran iP an extensive agricultural territory It ItIs Itis x Vis an Is nn an located 1 on tho the St. St Anthony Yel- Yel I tone Park railroad thirty seven lows low Falls Idaho north or of Iles t i 1 T 1 T. T U i. Soule Soul an n attorney of oC St St. Anthony Anthon Ma Ida rIda learned d last night through The his offices and anil that j In the Fh First t National Bank building thero had been completely destroyed de- de ed rca in the thc fire Mr Ir Soule Is v visit visit- tn friends In Salt LaJ Lake hake e |