Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-12-24 | Page 1 | Million-Dollar Blaze

MILLIONDOLLAR BLAZE Largest WallPaper Plant in America Is Destroyed Hamilton 0 Dec 3The fire In tho Champion Coated Pu > er works which started late last night was not under control until after 3 oclock this mornIng morn-Ing The loss IH placed at from 7 WOOJ < to 1000000 It was tho largest plant of the kind In the United Stales and employed over tOO persons A stock of J2500M worth of enameled book and magazine paper was wholly destroyed There wan also a loss of n great quantity of valuable machinery The fire was caused by the explosion of a can of cuollno In the hands of John Kepp who was ublnir It for cleaning some portion of hue machinery Kepp was severely burned Tho plant Is owned by a company of which Petor G Thompson of College Hill IB the largest stockholder The tompiinv had Just completed 750000 pnswcd brick building which the lire department succeeded In saving Tho capital stock of tho I company Is I 11iOOlJlJ but Its stock la J held at n much higher figure