Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-01-06 | Page 2 | Fire at Penitentiary

FIRE AT PENITENTIARY While hUo prisoners at tho Utah penitentiary penitentiary n- n were g going to supper last night largo volumes or of smoke rose from tho tto coal cellar near tho the dining rooms Guards Immediately crowded about the prisoners rs a n message was sent Into tho the prison of office lice Armed with extinguishers Warden Arthur M the tho prison Pratt Prati dashed and outside guards of oC Into the cellar They Tiley found flames eating In Into to woodwork and fuel fuet After a battlo of ot n. n a. a Quarter of ot hour an tho fire was ex ex- ex Damalo was ryas slight Attempts made to thaw v out frozen water pipes In the cellar with a tor torch h arc are believed d' d to have o been the cause of ot the ino fire tire