Show SALT SUIT PLANT PUN AT JT ATI I LAKE IS WIPED OUT BY FUMES FLAMES Fire Fine of Mysterious Origin De Destroys Destroys Destroys Works and Loss Is Given at WORKMEN WAGE NAGE BRAVE y BUT USELESS FIGHT SUPERINTENDENT JACK AN ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR BIGGER AND BETTER pLANT In Jn one of ot the most costly fires In Inthe the history of Salt Sait Lake Ilce the plant of ot the f Inland Crystal Salt company com pan located d dat j at Saltair was completely c destroyed destro d last las night The value l of or the buildings building with machinery equipment supplies supplier and stock is I estimated by b Superintend Superintendent Superintendent ent Will VIII Jack Tack to have exceeded d tl d and against which there Is only Insurance The Tile tire lire which broke out about 60 was first discovered by Night Watchman Scott Ure In hi of o othe the engine room and within a few minutes m with startling rapidity it had through the building and ware house hulse h Th greater damage In the th dOsT loss 1 s of the adjoining cottages and boarding rooms housing g the workmen and their families ram Illes did not occur was wa a alone due clue to the absence a nce of any an wind The of ot the th salt company numbering about ninety men had hail bare barely bareI barely ly I finished their supper when the fire alarm sounded on the whistle le T b by y the watchman took them from their homes Under tim th leadership of ot Foreman n J T K Miller lIler the lines Une of hose were ald but before the pumps could he be st rid the engine room was a seeth teth seething seething ing mass n ass of flames and the machinery rendered useless The men resorted to the bucket brigade but their work valiant and heroic hl in the untiring strength they the threw Into it was abed absolutely lute futile against the raging fire that by b then had completely enveloped the building Special Train Dispatched Immediately I after atter the fire started word was received from Saltair by bv tel telephone telephone telephone ephone and a special train carried c Secretary O 0 A Clayton and Superintendent Superintendent Superintendent Jack Tack of or the company and a apart party part including a Herald reporter to i ithe the scebe The origin of or the fire is Lc unknown the tiu only plausible theory th otY being that Il it started from rom sparks from the chimneys chimney Th r ws W sni fire or light In the gine room at the time and It is im improbable improbable improbable probable that the tbt fire could have hae originated from within the building While r Salt Lake last night Superintendent Jack Tae In a state statement statement ment meat given ghen for The Herald said that in inthe inI inthe the th e brief Investigation J he had been able to make the fire was something of a I mystery to him himAs himAs himAs As you heard the night watchman say Superintendent Jack said the fire was discovered in the ceiling of the engine house There was absolutely nothing in that part of the building to cause a n fire and on o 1 the other hand if It It was caused by b sparks dropping from the chimneys g the fire must have hae tray trav traveled tm along the roof for over a distance of forty fort feet before It was noticed and this I do do not consider likely Foreman Is Puzzled Foreman Miller was wa equally quail at a loss to account for the origin of the fire I knew nothing about it he said until I i heard the whistle When hen I Iru rushed ru hed out of the house I could see the flames It Tt took but a minute or nr two to for the men men to get the hose stretched out but before we could start the pumps the ceiling of the engine house fell In and then we were power powerless powerless powerless less Out of the fire the only things saved saed were five fie freight cars which the men mn were able to push away from the ware warehouse w warehouse re i house before the flames reached them theD I IOne One car however which was wac being loaded was caught and aid destroyed I The only accident t to o occur cur to the fire firefighters firefighters fighters fi was that th t of or William Genoski who fell from the roof root of the coal shed shod In the fall fail to the ground he struck on his left wrist throwing It out of joint A physician ph ician was summoned from Gar Garfield Garfield field and th tit the injury promptly prompt attended Opens Valves in Boilers The heroism and alert bravery of or Watchman atchman Ure who ho in is II 50 so years ear of oC age probably prevented a number of ot se serious noun rious accidents if not hot t fatalities After sounding the alarm the thought of the boilers flashed upon Ure Although by b bUll this Ull time the fire was well weli under way at the risk of or serious burns he dashed through the flames flameR and opened the th valves on the three boilers releasing the steam and nd thus preventing the pos possibility possibility of an explosion This action together to ether with the willing work of the elicited much ap appreciative comment from Superintend Superintendent ent eat Jack Tack j I jIt It wa WI was stated last night 11 t by that immediate plans would be made for or the reconstruction of oC the I plant and unless there should hould be I undue delay in securing the machinery the new works shOuld be in n operation I Continued on Page 12 SALT PLANT AT LAKE IS WIPED OUT BY FIRE Continued From Page 1 within four or five months at least leat Colonel M W 1 Clayton manager of ot the company Is at present in Kansas and ald the news of the loss of DC the plant plat was wag Ia telegraphed to him last night Mr Ir Clayton Mayton Cla ton left lef Salt Sal Lake several days ago ao for Detroit and New York Tork on business matters mater connected with wih his company but mt It is expected that he will I return to Salt Sal Lake Upon his hia ar arIval arral Ival rhal active preparations for the ral re building will wl be begun Plans for Reconstruction n We 1 e will wi get started on the recon within a very short tine time tre Superintendent Jack said sd and al although although though hough we had a good god complete plant before the new one will wi excell excel it I since it t will wi be b thoroughly modern in Ine every ry respect It I will wl be built bui right from the tE th ground gund up and the machinery wi will be of or orthe the he very ver latest design and patents and will vill wi also have an increased capacity In estimating the loss Superintendent Jack Jak said sid that the value of the plant and equipment represented approximately approximately matel 1250 The stock of refined salt alt si contained In the tho warehouse was ws valued at a about and the stock of ot bags bag destroyed represented The Th Inland Crystal Salt Sal company company since the consolidation In 1898 of the company of similar name and the Ih Th r i in Salt company hits has h grown gi to o be the largest salt sal refining company in n the te west and supplies s practically ly all al the he territory west of ot Denver Its Is of oC officers are ae Joseph Josph F Smith president M L W Clayton Claon manager er LA Clayton secretary and ad treasurer The original company was was ivas established I in n 1885 1835 but the plant destroyed really reaty I dates from the merger of the two com corn panics janies paies Since that time the plant plat has h 1 be been r completely remodeled mOdeled t and and added adde I to by the installation of ot modern moer ma machinery machinery j chinery until a n capacity output of ot 12 tons ons per hours hour was w ob obtained tamed mined The equipment Included include two complete refineries |