Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 8 | Spark from Passing Engine Starts Fire

SPARK FROM PASSING ENGINE STARTS FIRE CRBSTON, la.. Aug. SO. Fire, believed to have started from a spark from a passing engine, caused a loss of 3125,000 hore this afternoon and for more than an hour threatened tho entire best residence section of the city. The blaze started In C. S. Rox & Bona icehouse and spread to SJwlft & Co.'s poultry, butter and egg plant, which 1b completely destroyed. Scoros of fires were started In dwellings across the street, but wore checked by their owners. The First United Presbyterian church took fire, but it was extinguished with slight damage. The blaze was spectacular and the Intense In-tense heat from the burning packing house made fighting tho Arc difficult. One fireman was overcome by tho heat, but later revived.