Show THE FIE FIEND AGAI N APPEARS Breaks Out Anew In Stricken Park City THE KIMBALL HOUSE TOTALLY DESTROYED What Was Left of the Town Narrowly Nar-rowly Escapes I A Defective Flue sponsible For the Second Outburst Damage 4OOO With Insurance of 81500 People Adapting Themselves to the Distressing Dis-tressing Circumstances Resulting I From the Terrible Conflagration of I Sunday Starting Tip In Business I Again Offers of Assistance I Thankfully Received But Declined De-clined The Citizens Are Looking After Their Own People The insatiable fire fiend showed itself at Park City again yesterday afternoon after-noon The Kimball house was totally destroyed by fire and it was only by heroic efforts that the flames were restrained re-strained from spreading to neighbor ing residences and consuming the entire en-tire lower part of town saved from Sundays conflagration When the alarm of fire was given at a quarter past one yesterday afternoon men and women were appalled and cculd scarcely comprehend that the demon was again asserting its destructive destruc-tive power I cannot be possible they thought gazing sadly upon the ruins of the larger portion of the city that another conflagration is to come and sweep away what remains of Utahs greatest silver mining camp I came like an echo from Sundays awful catastrophe The fire started in the Kimball house from a defective flue in the kitchen and totally destroyed the hotel Had i not been for the heroic efforts of the firemen I fire-men and citizens the whole lower end of town would have been wiped out George Hall proprietor of the Park City hotel which was wiped out in Sundays Sun-days fire had moved into the Kimball house and was preparing to conduct a hotel business What little they saved frcm the first fire a burned yesterday yester-day and the people who have said welcome I wel-come to thousands of guests are homeless home-less lessThe flue from which the fire started had just bee cleaned out and a new range placed in the kitchen The flames spread so rapidly that none of the contents con-tents could be saved The small dwelling located only a few feet from the hotel and occupied by Frank Foster was saved by the efforts ef-forts of Charles Paull and F R Davis who with a pair of hose without any couplings kept water playing on the roof I James Ivers had just moved his ore I teams into the large barn of the Kimball Kim-ball estate which corners on the north I end of the block Fire caught on the shingles of the barn several times but gade were extinguished by the bucket bri I The Kimball house was owned by Mrs G A Kimball of Salt Lake City and was situated on Park avenue near the power house of the Park City Light Heat and Power company The value of the building was 4000 Insurance 1500 The people of Park City are adapting themselves to the distressing circumstances circum-stances in which they are placed in a manner becoming true Christians OFFERS OF ASSISTANCE The city council met this evening and received communications from the following fol-lowing persons offering assistance Governor Heber lI Wells S F Jones Provo Mayor John A Boyle Ogden Ogden Flour and Milling company F J Kiesel Co Ogden H Wagener Salt Lake Mayor S Murdock Heber Mayor Thomas Allen Coalville Mayor Dan Lambert Kamas The council authorized the mayor to notify them that at present it was not necessary to accept the offer Hon Thomas Kearns manager of the Silver King mine who is now in Denver Den-ver wired Mrs Kearns to see that no one suffers and to take steps to assist those in distress Mrs Kearns headed a list with a personal donation of 75 and will take the matter up giving assistance as-sistance at once I RESUMING BUSINESS Welsh Driscoll Buck proprietors of the large tore on upper Main street have given to L E Hubbard and F A VlcCarty jewelers the use of their front windows to open business The First National Bank opened Business today in the store of Welsh Driscoll Buck Everything in the safe is preserved perfectly I M D Hurlbut has purchased the stock of drugs and fixtures of the Knutsford pharmacy and will build on the site of the McPhfeXbuilding E C Williamson saved about 2000 of his stock of drugs and is sawing lumber lum-ber today for a temporary building Bates Kimball druggists will build on their old site Julius Frankel will open business in the Hirschman building Steve Johns has completed a 10x12 goer F A Swanger superintendent of the public schools lost all his household goods and he and family are stopping at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank A j i i Bird William Mortensen whose home was i I i i totally destroyed is stopping with j I I William Wallace Other citizens are making the best of the catastrophe Mrs George Hall found her purse in the ruins of the Kimball house this evening No insurance adjuster has yet arrived I ar-rived The Anchor Mining company will open their office in D C McLaughlins law office G I C s + 1 tJ e i SCEITE DURING THE FIRE YESTERDAY I |