Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-01 | Page 5 | Lost House by Fire and is Badly Burned

LOST HOUSE BY FIRE AND IS BADLY BURNED W. S. Patterson lost his house at 311 East Tenth South by fire early yesterday morning, while hc himself was badly burned. At 5 o'clock Mr. Patterson, who Is master mas-ter mechanic at the barns of the streetcar street-car company, got up and lighted a little lit-tle oil stove in tho kitchen, after which he wont back to bed. .About forty-five-minutes after this ho ivas arouatd by a neighbor shouting to him that his kitchen T'a.s, on fire. Tho lire department was quickly summoned, and, In spite of thu long run, the steamer and hose wagon from No. 1 and tho truck from No.' I, In command of Chief Bywator. arrived on the sceno nr.d set to work on the flame?. The entire building was entirely wrapped In llro and the greater part of their efforts ef-forts had to bo directed to saving the surrounding property. As It wus, a frnm! and brick building on tho west side of Mr. Patterson's houso suffered damage to tho amount of Slo. Insurance to th amount of $1000 was carried by Mr. Patterson on his house, and J250 on tho contents. Tho total loss Is a little over J20(0. Mr. Patterson did' not seem to know how ho received his injuries. It seems ihat when he awoke he was surroundi-d by flames, but in tho excitement ho did not notice this, and he thinks he acquired ac-quired them running upstairs after his wife. No other InJurlcB were suffered by any one. Mrs. Patterson only saved herself her-self by Kreut presence of mind. Both tho Injured man's face and hands wcro scorched and burnt by thc HamcH. Thoy wero promptly dressed by Dr. C. M. Benedict, who says the consequences will not - bo serious.