Show HRE F DAMAGE 18000 Utah Bedding and Manufacturing Manufac-turing Plant Wiped OutPLACE Out-PLACE BURNED LIKE TINDER Pelts Lumber Yard Caught and Considerably Con-siderably Damaged Loss to tho Bedding Company in Stock and Machinery About 14000 With 7000 Insurance Building Loss About 2000 and Damage to Lum bor Yard = 2000 Both Fly Insured In-sured Fircxunu Randolph Injured Tho building and plant of the Utah Bedding and Manufacturing company on Eighth South street 0 few rods west of Slate street were almost totally destroyed de-stroyed hy lire yesterday afternoon and the neighboring lumber yard of George P Felt suffered cocsldcrablc damage The twostory brick and frame buildIng build-Ing occupied by the Bedding company together with the valuable machinery and a large quantity of raw and manufactured manu-factured material fell an easy prey to the flames The fire had such a good start when the fire apparatus reached the scene I that efforts to control It were fruitless I The fire started in a colon bin on the ground floor of the building I Is thought that a stray match or piece of metal came in contact with the cotton I cot-ton picker which revolved at the rate I of 2500 revolutions a minute A single I spark of fire dropping in the large bin of dry cotton was enough to start it burning burrIngBURNED 1 BURNED LIKE TINDER Joe Sotolln lad who works at the machine first discovered the blaze He says that he turned his back on the bin for a moment and then faced It again to find the colon In flames Within n 1 minute the fire leaped to a heap of excelsior ex-celsior and then to the woodwork and I floor of the second story An alarm was sounded and the employees began leaving tho building The first Intimation those on the top floor had of the blaze was when a huge volume of black smoke came In on them from below and within a very 1 few moments the red flame forced its way through the floor The employees began rushing downstairs and Al Smith a young man who was among tho last to start had the left side of his face and his hair badly scorched GIRL LEAPS FROM WINDOW Miss Agnes Hammer a seamstress upon turning to leave became frightened fright-ened by the smoke and fire and sought escape by a large opening twelve feet above the ground The young lady leaped to a mattress spread on a wooden wood-en platform below badly spraining her ankle but otherwise uninjured EMPLOYEES FIGHT THE FLAMES An alarm had in the meantime been phoned to fire headquarters but while the apparatus was en route the employees em-ployees of the factory began throwing water on the blaze with a large garden hose Will Acocks while helping fight the fire on the inside ran Into some sharp Instrument probably a saw Ills right foot was cut to the bone and he had to retire to his home and send for a i physician The apparatus of fire station No 1 reached the scene about 420 oclock but the building was practically doomed when It arrived Station No4 was also summoned A brdeze from the north assisted the flames in spread lag over the entire building The firemen fire-men braved the smoke and fire going to the second floor but the flames did not allow them to remain long MISHAPS TO FIREMEN Fireman George Brown came near to meeting with serious Injury before leaving the place Dazed by the intense in-tense heat and smoke he groped his way to a window and was on the ergo of failinG headforemost when Fireman John Lawson seized him Fireman Albert Williams suffered a painful cut on his right leg while getting get-ting away from the vicinity of a can gasoline In a short lime the firemen were forced to withdraw from the building which became entirely enveloped in flames The heat grew so Intense that oven a near approach to the place was Impossible Throe streams were kept on the seething mass but the water did littlo to check the fire LUMBER YARD CAUGHT The Hames aided by the breezs gradually worked their way to some small buildings behind the factory and then after destroying these Into lum her piles at George P Felts lumberyard lumber-yard A large quantity of fencing lathing cedar posts and similar material mate-rial was destroyed before the fire fighters succeeded in checking the blaze In the lumber yard FIREMAN RANDOLPH INJURED As the hose wagon from station No 1 came rapidly across the railroad tracks two firemen were hurled from their eats Sum Randolph fell partly beneath the heavy wagon and a rear wheel 1 pawed rtfcr his right foot badly l crushing lhat member He was taken In the patrol wagon to his home whors Dr Wltchpr attended his Injuries It will be several weeks before the young man is able to report for duty GREAT CROWDS GATHER Thousands of people I gathered about the scene and the police had some trouble in keeping small boys out ot danger The small boys hOWCCI who seemed to fear nothing rendered Valu able assistance by helping the firemen to carry heavy lines of hose about the building Shortly after C oclock the upper POI lion of the east brick wall fell with a crush but fortunately no one was be heath the falling brick DWELLING HOUSE THREATENED The residence of August Llndholm about seventyfive yards behind the building was threatened with destruc tion Several lIme flying embers struck on the roof which was kept from Igniting only by liberal streams of water fropi n garden hose Toward C30 oclock the woodwork and all combustible material having been well burned awny the fire com menced dying out but it continued to smolder until well Into the night LOSS ABOUT 18000 Just exactly what the loss on time contents will be the owners J R Vail cntlne and M Stockman are unable to decide Mr Stockman believes It will reach between 13000 and 14000 The loss of the building is about 2000 and 4to FeljjJ lumber yard another 2000 making a total of about 18000 A largo quantity of valuable raw and j manufactured material wan destroyed together with the planing mill machin cry The shoddy machine < electric I mo tor cotton pickers wire spinners and other machinery are thought to be be yond possible repair Just what Limo salvage will be could not bo even guessed at last nIght I INSURANCE SHORT Mr Stockman Bays that between SCOOO i and 7000 Insurance was carried with 1 various companies on the contents Rtlrnth it Is nald 1000 Insurance ran out and had not been renewed up to the lime of the fire BUILDING FULLY COVERED i Zlons Savings bank was the owner of the building George M Cannon the cashier said last evening that he believed the losses of the bank by the burning h 6f the building were fairly well covered by the Insurance which amounted to S1SOO divided us follows Northern Assurance company IL J Grant Co agents 760 Home Fire of Utah 300 Fire Association of Philadelphia Phil-adelphia 750 FELT LOSS FULLY COVERED I The loss to Felts lumber yard was placed at 2000t entirely covered by Insurance In-surance The WIIlIIl 01 sours City and the Palanlino Insurance companies I share thtU loss almost equally HAD A FIRE A YEAR AGO The owners of the Utah Bedding and Manufacturing company came here from Colorado to and a half years ago They were having their electric motor substituted by a steam plant and preparing to enlarge their output The boiler and part of tho steam plant had already been set In place Their place was visited by a fire over a year ago but the fire department saved the plant after a loss of 51000 had been sustained The lames and clouds of dense black smoke were seen from all parts of the city and attracted a great deal of attention at-tention Many people thought was the Salt Palace directly south of tha bedding factory that was on lire |