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Show FIRE DESsp",8illeLi NEW GARAGE AT IRONTON Columbia Garage on State Highway Gutted by Flames Wednesday Morning. The recently constructed two-story two-story Columbia Garage, opposite the Ironton plant of the Columbia Steel corporation, was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning about 2 o'clock. Damages totaled approximately .$3."00, according to Fire Chief Heed Boslmrd, most of which is covered by insurance. The building was the property of i J. K. Baldridge, who lives at Iron-ton, Iron-ton, hut the garage was leased by Jesse Long, whose home is in the Steel City sub-division. Nothing but the concrete walls remain standing. The frame superstructure super-structure was totally demolished by the flames. The cause of the fire is undetermined, the flames destroying destroy-ing everything to such an extent the cause could not he learned. According to Mr. Long, he left the garage about 12 o'clock Tuesday night and knew nothing about the fire until awakened three hours later by a person who had assisted in fighting the flames. A man conducting a soft drink stand near the garage first noticed the fire when he went outside his home to find out why his lights went out. Noticing smoke pouring from the upstairs part of the garage, he notified Mr. Baldiidge. The flames had already then spread so far in the upstairs part of the building it was impossible to put out the fire with buckets. The Provo aud Springville fire departments responded to the call, but on account of the poor facilities facili-ties for water could do little to stop the fire. For a time it was feared that a young man who had been sleeping in the upstairs had been caught by the fire, but it was learned later that he was in Spanish Fork. |