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Show THE 0UDEX FIRE. Full and Ieliiiled I'ni-lit nlurs. We take the i-h-wing 'details of tlie Ogdeil iiie ii":n the .'. .'''() of la.-t evening : Tuis nioriiin-.' a little bdhre three o clock, -Mr. Ib-n. t larl;. nimitwatcn-man, nimitwatcn-man, observed ll :i- i.-.-uing from the drug-store of 1 iij-iul-otham tt Co., nearly in the centre of the west side of .Maui Street. He cjuiekly gave the alarm, and a number of persons were soon up-n the spot, the I'ore-nin-t being ; Ciiari. - Jenkins and Dr. 1', L. Ander.-on. Tiie llames soon eomnmnic;Uod to ihe adjoining buildings, build-ings, and a smart breeze, which sprung up IV. -;n the s-uith, made them roar and leap forward as if de-terminul de-terminul In swe p everything before them. Mr. I). H. Peery was awakened, and sent Alfred Harris around town with a gong, the noise of which alarmed the inhabitants and gathered a big crowd. Alderman Thomson was aroused from his slumbers by the noise and hurried to the exciting scene, and was quickly joined by Prest. F. D. liiehanls. They consulted con-sulted as to the best means of checking check-ing the spread of the conflagration, and while water was being drawn bv buckets from the new tanks, directed a company of men to tear down a small frame building adjoining Jas. llorroek's store on the south, the latter being pattly built of rock and brick. Axes were procured from Z. C. M. I., and this was verv soon accomplished. ac-complished. Meanwhile, to stop the spread of the flames southward, Messrs. F. A. Shiells and James Ihirrup. with allot all-ot her coi 1 1 pa i ty, tore di wn llol ert Wilson's saloon and bowling alley, and still another company demolished demolish-ed the building occupied jointly by Mr. T. Jones, Lailor, and the Howe sewing machine agent. Tho force-pump force-pump in front uf Z. 0. M. I., and that at the rear of the Pioneer drug store, were brought into play, and men climbed on the buildings which were in danger and reeeivedbuckets of water passed up from below. Wet blankets were spread on the roofs of the City and Pioneer drug stores and 'A. C. M. 1., and the utmost exertions ex-ertions used hy numbers of brave men to quell the flames, while a few stood on the east side of the street only watching the progress of the lire and some of them helped themselves to anything they could lay their hands upon. All along the street storekeepers as-si as-si stiil by the crowd were packing their goods into the road, merchandize merchan-dize of all kinds was thrown out of the Z. C. M. I., while the llames shut upward up-ward and the breeze carried the embers em-bers northward a distance of a quarter of a mile, and in some instances set-ling set-ling on lire stuff that was being removed re-moved in wagons. Suddenly the wind lulled, the lire-tightens redoubled their ellbrts, and about six o'clock were fortunately for-tunately successful hi obtaining the victory over the destroying element. The destruction, however, was terrible. ter-rible. Higginbotham & Co. 's drug and grocery store with nil its contents was entirely swept away; Mr. Mendelsohn's Men-delsohn's dry goods, X. C. M. I. stove department, and Levy's dry goods, to the south, were also completely demolished, de-molished, though most of their goods-were goods-were saved. North of Higginbot-ham's, Higginbot-ham's, Kent's shoe shop, and Chamber's Cham-ber's news sd ire, Mr. Carty's beer saloon, Taylor 1 leni tiger's, general merchandize. J. Coclough's, fruit and toys, and C. Pearce's tin and hardware, hard-ware, were totally destroyed., most of the .-i"ck however, being taken out. Pidcuck it Gale's furniture store was badly burned on the roof and considerable of their stock was damaged. dam-aged. It was a rapid and terrible conflagration, confla-gration, and had it not been for the soaking rain of the day previous the earnest labors and determined energy of the active men and Wuinen who hauled with the fire-tiend would have been in vain, tho whole of Main street must have, succumbed, and 1 woidd have gone like a flash. As it was, in about lliree hours ten stores were iickeel up, and nothing left to mark their whereabouts but smouldering smould-ering debris and a solitary wall or two ready to totter and fall. ' The greatest loss would fallen 7. C. M. I. but from the fact thai the IusLiUilion is insured. About 1-30 stoves, with a large quantity of sheet copper, and a big stock of hardware, and iimvan were stored in the rear of the building, Vihich was, composed of adobies, and was the property of Mr. D. Jf. Peery. This, with" tho damage by removal and water to the immense stock of merchandise in the wholesale general department, involves in-volves a loss of about Si'o.WO. Messrs. HigginUitham have lost ttieii it 1 J . a:e--uutin-j to about '..iHXt, and were not iu-uivd. The building wasowiu-d by Mr. U. H. Peery. Mr. Mendelsohn's stock was worth about iVXO; much of il is badly damaged, lie is partly in-ured: ibis building "alto wis Mr. Peery V who-e loss is id -out SoVO. uninsured. Mr. Levy's stock i was worth ali..ut -s,iX). much of it j dan;ag-.d.:par-iy injured. PMovk I & Ga-e's loss ie about SLiM, uoi in- sured. Kobt. Wiison's torn down, ; loss -lS lteed. Ik1 maker, K-s i '--'lK Chambers, news dealer, $-Q. MeCarty, beer saloon, loss very-slight. I-iyl- T II-nhiger. general morchand- j i-e, .-'oo. three buikliu last! named b-:.;-:-.ccd to Mr. avn-.tbau Browum. loss about Sh,oi. uniii- i iure d. T. B.iker. gcn-T.il mer- : longed l.:- Mr. S. Horro-;'. was worth alv.it .--'j insured. J. C-x-lough s ijvw shi: the b-a;ld.in-j. with P.ar.etiuiore, 1-h-r-crl ioMr. C j Pearee. the whole wus V--rth ah-vi( ! . ;3,-yor u::h:-u-id. Jlr. Walla-.e ' w..? d.im.'irU .--)y).'" MrDri- Jl-::..s o '.i.id tiie-r-.ir poui.n .. hi., srv-e. the fr.MU bc-leni-t-ii i Mr. Hon-rv Hon-rv 1. o.vr-.::-e. ivss .i'eiit v'X'. Per-r" Per-r" a: i'r:t."..- :i. d. :r; a::-l honors, -i , : -:- : :- ' tho ' w.-s -!"r-."" Lur':".' "at-.TMr. F. A.' ' ium ll.-.wn. C,m: Y,t- Cauh-M and i o;y a-.-L -i; M-:-ii d Kil'e and M .s-.--. L. a:.-i A. K. t'..rr when tney a: r:..-.i ih 1 , e, ;;. u. w, in u,.-c.e;-,,. )r. .....u.n. of '.lu C. !'. ! i. -t. r- . . .e r..i: pra:-e fbr hi- sl:t eV, ; .. '4r. ' . ah-. with Mr. H. T spread l'::e b' oik. t-..:i t:.,. .. i . C. M- L. ..::-!:-,.-::;-;--- otbu-.dd. M-srs. ' - W. :,-h. m .t:.,i Hin.-hch;:. Wm. ;-,v. V. C.u.Cap. Show. h; :o.-k ma:i. a:.J many others ..-.'.-e n..:ne- ed:d n--t learn, sparel no pain-, b.;t v.,.:kI like IkT-- IkT-- - A n nih- ,- ,,: aho are "''y W'.v-A. d f r their 1;. lp in -uin-p:-op-:ty. p. hh:- o- t heavy --U !r".n . C. .J. I. an Pldcvk G d.s pivn:i.s.-s and b -,-avin- like if roines. Am--n- V -.n are ' Mrs. Toom.n. M: 1 t M . . M irk Hall's dangbl.T.) Mi.-. J.m...md K.lcti Davis. Mrs. ;,.ta;i i411,l yi:. j-;. Siiipley, ;l-w.'h ;l-w.'h a otiicrs who - names have not b. en lurni-h.-d. Tne West si-.le of Main stre. t looks d- .-lit.- and ibrloni. The embers st:ll sniuuid.-r, and the nuns of tiie st-.-rcs lie cation -d al-vHU. with fragments frag-ments of diiapid.Uid merchandise. j Ttius'" nierchanLs whose go.tds cscapcxi tne llames. have a big job before them disarranging their denioralizul etal-hsi. etal-hsi. melius and sorting out damaged articles. We h.-pe the owners of the-p:operiy the-p:operiy destroyed will take pattern hy l lie emerpri.sing meuof other cities and go tu work witii a will and erect substantial structures on the site of tiie old tiiider-l-o. stores, and from the goodly rents, they will command, and i tiu- unproved appearance of t'ne street. 1-Jlii they juid the citv, in a short time, will have link Jause to regret lue fust great conflagration inOgden. |