Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-08 | Page 10 | Blaze in Playhouse Causes Big Loss

I ; BLAZE IN PLAYHOUSE 'i i , CAUSES BIG LOSS 1 .'Ii- ; Curtis Street Theater in Denver. Is I , ' 1 ;(' . : Destroyed by an Early Horn- 1 j J ing Fire. ' i,! 1 , "Wv ENVER, May 7. Tho interior i j fi I of the Curtis theater, which ' I m I JJ' had Ust recently been newly I , equipped, was destroyed by jl j ; lire that started on the stage at 2:S0 jj i i1 1; o'clock this morning. All the travel- i 1 j' ln5 equipment, costumcK and scenery of it 'j J" the May Howard Extravaganza com- ! '"i; S S J)an3"' 'hich was showing at the thea- i i 'Ji I ter, was burned. The total los3 1b estl- 'l v mated at $D5,000. )! , J j'l For a time the fire threatened to Ii "i ll J spread to tlie Chicago hotel whero the i ' j i ' May Howard company and a number 'j ,j j i of others are guestB. Heroic efforts of j the firemen, which was especially dl- ' I i rected toward tho hotel, prevented the 'j , j, lire from spreading, however.