Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-03-05 | Page 14 | Midnight Fire Loss is Now Fixed at $10,000

MIDNIGHT FIRE lOSS lOSSIS IS NOW FIXED I AT OO Consoli Consolidated Liquor Com Corn Company's pany's Saloon Is Gutted by Fierce B Blaze aze j Cigarette Is Blamed Insurance nce adjusters toda today estimated the loss 1058 to the building and fixtures of ot the Consolidated Liquor company's sa saloons sa sa- loons bone at 48 18 s East Second South Sout street which was destroyed by fire firo carl early this at approximately In Insurance Insurance In- In urance amounting to Is 18 carried on the building A like amount Is also carried carried car car- ried nod on the tho stock and fixtures o of tho be eata es es- es ta Origin of or the fire firo Is yet ct unknown al although at- at though it Is thought to have been started b by a cigarette or cigar butt rel ct carelessly I thrown among papers In the lavatory ator In tho thio basement of or the saloon Fire Chief W. W H. H Bywater bases this theory on t the 10 fact tact that most of the blaze was confined to that part of the building EV Every I piece of fire Oro fighting equipment from headquarters was brought Into use with nearl nearly tty firemen The alarm reached tho the central contral station at o o'clock clock this morning and the first of equipment was at the fire In less than two O minutes Practically the tho entire fir first t floor of ot th the saloon aloon dropped into the basement Pirce billiard and pool tables went down when the fire firo broke through the tho floor noor The They were totally destroyed b by the flames Three lines line of oC hose hoso were Vero run In the front entrance and four tour in tho the rear On ac account ac- ac acCount count of at the density of oC tho the smoke the firemen were unable to get at the base ot of the blaze blase Holes were chopped through the 10 floor and aDd the water was turned into the base base- I ment meat from the tho main floor All electrical circuits were cut out from the building which made the fight sM less Jess hazardous Electric lights from the new light car that was built on one of ot the small machines machines ma ma- chines furnished ample and safe lI light ht for tor the t Chief ChIet W W. H. H Bywater was rendered Unconscious unconscious un un- conscious for a tow few moments when a large galvanized Jal Iron smokestack which became I loosened when whon the water was turned or It It fell teU upon a group of firemen fire fire- men The Tho chimney struck the tho chief chic on the tho head and he was a carried away lie He recovered reco In Ia a n short time The building Is owned b by Ezra Thompson Thomp Thomp- son and ond J. J C. C Lynch Tho The saloon was owned b by tho the firm of ot Merritt Conrad Leggott It was formerly the Log Lo Cabin saloon