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Show WAS FIREDBY A STOVE The Crystal Saloon with Its Costly Equip, mcnt Euccumb's to tho Flames This Morning. THE LOSSES PLACED AT $6000 With a Timely Insurance of $4400 ' Another Harmless Flash on Commercial Com-mercial Avenue. It was Sara Haller, tho palo and intellectual in-tellectual gentleman with the auburn moustache and rouge-like cheeks who drew his little pop at 2:30 o'clock this morning and opened the alarm that brought the fire department to the Crystal saloon at 2'iti Main street. The lire fiend and a dry day had found a sort of ann and-arm alliance and already al-ready the flames were tilling the little chamber in which Bacchus has entertained enter-tained his votarios for these many years in a manner that was most hospitable. The prospects pros-pects for a vcritablo holocust were most encouraging. The interior was constructed entirely of wood that had been seasoning for years, while upon each side were frame structures that offered themselves as fuel. The lire department was on its metal, however, how-ever, and an olio of blazes that have shod their light on the past week hav- i . 1 1. 1 , ... iL.. ... . e .1 ii.. pui it iu nun, wih starter lur one 01 me most disastrous blazes that has over visited Zion was overcome. Not, however, how-ever, without serious damage to the owner of the building, E. Whiting; to Harvey Carlyle, who occupied the first iloor as a saloon and to Boardman & Co., who conducted a club room that was furnished with oriental grandeur above. Mr. Carlyle has sustained the heaviest loss, his fixtures that were obtained ob-tained from the Brunswick Balke company com-pany having been completely destroyed while the contents of the cellar wore so badly saturated as make them of little value. The loss on the stock and fixtures will probably reach $'3000 whilo the club room above quotes a loss of $1100. The former is covered by an insurance of $-14')0 while the latter goos without any protection whatever. Of the origin of the lire nothing definite is known It is Chief Stauton's theory that it caught from the stove that stood in a room that was encased in copper. There are some to differ with him as , there was little fire in it when the proprietor pro-prietor and Mr. Board man entered the place about 0 o'clock, and pulling on their nightcaps took their departure for their respective homes. At the back of the building, leading to tho second floor was a ladder ' that extended its services to the skulk-' skulk-' lug incendiare had he wanted them. It is the impression that the cause of the blaze introduced itself through this window but of this there is no proof. It looks very much as if some one, and not the stove, had helped the thing out. Mr. Carlyle states that he will build upon the ruins and be in business again in a few days. Gasoline Did It. The Colorado lunch counter at 89 Commercial avenue was another scene of tire last night, (the department com- , ing to the rescue in ample time to protect pro-tect the row of frame buildings that connect with it from total destruction. ,!Mr. Stewart, the proprietor, was serving serv-ing his customers from a gasoline stove , 6bortly after midnight when the fryer .', exploded scattering its contents over the walls that were instantly ignited while Mewart's hand was severely burned. The department was summoned and t the incipient blaze promptly extinguished. extin-guished. About 10 o'clock this morning morn-ing the stove again exploded but this time with less damage. doncy is toward a lower rate of interest. inter-est. The prevailing high rate of the past few weeks has also resulted in an lnllux of eastern capital, and from this time forward the market will be provided pro-vided with all the money for its needs. The idle millions are restless, and Salt Lake seems to be tho only place now , that affords substantial relief. |