Show our oar logon logan letter monday night flight about 1020 as diana fair air with liar her full round face learning beaming with goodwill goodwill to all on this our national birth birthday ay was waa just juat peeping over the tops of the eastern mountains your correspondent retook betook himself 0 to hills east of town n for tho the purpose of enjoy enjoy ins ing the beautiful display of fit niro or r a which was taking from all put lurta of 81 the e city skyrockets sky rockets saloons ba loons wilh wih chinese h i nese lanterns attached roman koman candles candies and other luminaries could be seen darting into the clear sky with brilliant effect in the midst ot all this splendor f suddenly gud denly there burst forth front from tile the very heart of the city a red and J fiercer a ercer light whose object seemed to be to outshine the moon and 1 the he destruction of property perty the dismal disma 1 arid and heart curd fre line I 1 cryor cry of firel fire I 1 was wafred wafted tedon on thouis the air with the effect that hundreds of people rushed to the alie scene of action was reached before the fire had made much headway it was discovered that the fire lied had broken out among several barns and sheds situated seventy five yards odthe of alie coop co op store an and d ve very rynear near tho the coop co op granary it if ilia alie I 1 latter a ater place lied had not been saved by pro prompt in pt and efficient work on ilia alie part of f ill alie is citizens iti zens ilia it is said that the an entire biart block loc k would have been swept from the earth by means of ilia hose good work was accomplished but it was waa noticeable that it if the lire fire lied had assumed the po proportions portions that it canne came so nearly doing tho the quantity and force 01 of water attainable would have b beau een deplorably plora bly insufficient that these barns 4 and 41 1 s ieda eds could not be saved toon soon 1 became a a apparent arent and to save the adjoining building fired tile the hearts of tile the workers several private dwellings just north were saturated with the water from the hose lose find and thus saved the tire burned with such remar remarkable kabie fury and rapidity licking in and consuming everything within its raach that a person permon passing an liona tour later could see no signs n of f fineas it hall had so complexly burn a ed f 50 everything combustible and the amo smoldering remains quenched by tile water about 1 1201 1 00 worth of property was consumed MI EM curtis pd and ara alin merrill being the heaviest I 1 jacra each losing abou worth of fabrics abrica the origin of 0 the confra ration is indefinite but more than fikely likely it was started by a sky rocket the people turned out and worked I 1 11 i 1 5 I 1 like brias there being no regularly authorized authorised author lAed firs fire brigade brig ade it is a pity that thata a place ol of over inhabitants inh abitanta cannot nt support aneff ortia ortin that direction st rt any rato rate MILES miika lany logan g n utah july 8 1887 |