Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-12 | Page 12 | Stone Plant Burns in Face of Firemen

STONE PLANT BURNS I IN FACE OF FIREMEN I IP P J 3 t Moran Again Suffers Se Serious Serious Serious rious Loss From Blaze of Unknown Origin Fire of suspicious origin destroyed the stone plant of f Pj Ps 3 J Moran loran 1 at the Bamberger quarries Ninth North and Second West last night It Is tho the third fire tire In which Mr Moran has suffered heavily within a year AU All have havo been of ot unknown ln or suspicious origin It is estimated that the Ute loss of last fire tire will exceed 1000 The other fires tires were more disastrous The tire fire was discovered late yester yesterday yesterday day afternoon by at the Bam Barn Bamberger berger borger limekilns lames Flames were ere then shooting from the base of ot the stone steno ole ele elevator vator Fanned by a brisk wind they thoy ate their way Into tho the heavy woodwork When hon the fire department arrived the flames had reached an uncontrollable I stage and the tho best the firemen could do was to play upon the flames flamos from a feeble stream of or water vater drawn 1000 feet from the tire Ire From tho elevator the tho fire spread Into the plant then thon Into the rock bins and finally Into the tipples All AU the tho woodwork burned to the ground and it was noticed when the fire had hat settled to the tho ground last night that thai the machinery was bent and twisted anti and that the stone stono crusher had been damaged beyond further use Tho The plant was ono of ot the newest of o othu the tho P 3 J Moran system of or plants and had boon been inactive several days Mr Moran had planned to put a gang of oC stone men to work at the th plant which within a few days would have supplied crushed rock for a new street and ce cc cement ment mont contract No available hydrants could be found and water pumped from froma a pool was thrown on the flames James