Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-01-24 | Page 12 | Serious Fire Subdued

I SERIOUS FIRE SUBDUED Fire Department Docs Effective Work at Evans's Undertaking Parlors. The overheated stovepipe of a hot. wafer furnace started a fire in the basement of the Evans undertaking establishment. es-tablishment. 48 South State street, at B o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and for B. timo the whole building and its contents con-tents was threatened with destruction. On account of the delayed discovery of ! the fire, it was' well under -way before I Hip department wns called. The basement, where the fire started, IS USod as a nahinfit. nnfl nnrmrar atmn Innd the shavings and light, materials nsed in the construction of coffins furnished fur-nished ready food for the flames, once they got fairly started. Thus the firemen fire-men had a fight on their hands the in-, in-, stent they arrived on tho scene. It was i waged with vigor, however, and won in remarkably short time. I The great volumes of smoke issuing From the basement windows and enveloping envel-oping the Tuxedo lodging-house, above the undertaker's, nnd the main offices of the Bell Telephone companv. iust cross the alley, created souks consternation conster-nation nmong the guests at the former nd the girls employed at the latter place. A stampede was at one time feared, but all fears were quickly allayed al-layed by the prompt action of the i .Bremen. J i The damage to the building will not ' xcced $200, and that; to the contents ,j 'ill probably reach $500.