Show NO HOPE FOR VICTIMS OGDEN FIRE V j jECO ft t a I i I f va v tA t- t A g i a s 1 i it- it f I i f 4 siyi s- s i- i e ECO ES BUILDING AS IT IS TODAY View taken from Twenty w street side of structure showing thick walls still standing and empty shell It was on th the D avenue venue side a a. few feet from front the corner that the firemen were struck by a stone atone fall ing jug from the tile coping the height of which may be bo seen in m the above picture I t K r 4 pl I 1 I v v-n v i e e tt 4 s' s e. e j. j cr ECCLES BUILDING AS IT WAS YESTERDAY The photograph i shows the former Eccles building Utah Loan and Trust building as it was once known looking from a a. point at the center cente center of of the intersection of Washington avenue and ana Twenty fourth street tre t. t The arch entrance in the center of the picture was that of the Commercial National bank the arch to the right was the only entrance or exit to the he upper floors of the tho building end and virtually the only exit from which the occupants could make their escape when the alarm was given The arch entrance to tho the left was that o of the Ross book store The Weber club and the Ogden commercial commer cial or organization o occupied the entire top floor of the building DARING RESCUES ARE MADE Firemen Were Still Pouring Pour Pour- in ing Water on Ruins of Eccles Eccles Ec Ec- Ec- Ec cles des Build Building ng at t Noo Noon PROMINENT CITIZENS ESCAPE BY LADDER City Employee Struck on ond Head by Stone Falling From Coping The most disastrous fire lire in th tho history of Ogden occurred last night completely gutting the E v cles des building at the southwest cor cor- cor leI of Twenty-fourth Twenty street an and l Washington avenue destroying 5 the home of the Weber club Og Og-i ien's lens commercial organization i the Commercial National bank quarters and over a score of offices offices of of- aces ent entailing a loss of m over er 2007 which is s rt y cov Covered r rea- rea ms r A t. t 1 um t Ie II fi re ag arL city on city jail jailer r. r and andGe George geIa ge- ge Wardlaw Ward V Ia law aw cit city detective were probably bl f fatally tally injured and several rs suffered injuries of a more marc or less painful nature Anderson and Var Wardlaw law were both opera operated fed ou on this his morning at tt the hospital for fractured skulls No hope is held out for Wardlaw's Wardlaw s 's recovery a and d Andersons Anderson's condition is extremely precarious Eleven men who were in th the tb Weber club lub on the tbt top floor of the building atthe at at- the time that the fire broke out had narrow escapes Three e made their way down the stairs with their heads covered cov coy ered with their overcoats Eight were taken from th the third floor of the build build- in lag ing on the fire ladder One of the ei eight ht had to be bo blindfolded before he be would woul consent to make snake the de descent cent Tho fire force of O Ogden den to together ether witha with a number of volunteers worked d all an night but it was not until after 2 o'clock this morning moraine that the dan danger er point had been passed At noon today the firemen were still pouring water into nto the ruins Firemen Reply Speedily Th The fire was disco c discovered d at at o o'clock clock last n night b by Harry Quinn Harry Quinn the elevator ele boy Quinn thou thought ht that he detected d smoke sm-oke and ran the machine to the basement which he discovered m flames He ran the elevator le to the top floor which was was occupied occupied bv by the tile Weber club and shouted that the building was walt walton wason on fire He HI then took the elevator to s the street floor and rushed out to turn in the alarm Tn In one minute and a n. half Chief Canfield Canfield Can Can- field antI and companies No o. o 1 and 2 were were on the scene and lust just two minutes later wat water r c commenced to pour into the building b Five minutes later eleven ele streams were plain on the doomed b 1 While ii the firemen w were e busy on the street and stringing hose boso on lIt nearby arby buildings eleven on members of the Weber club on the top floor of the tho bu building din were commencing the fight for their lives j I. I Bv By the time Quinn had bad returned to his bis el elevator after turning in the alarm he discovered red that not only was wai tho the machine dead doad but that flames were wert shooting hooting up the s shaft lift ft which acted as h a i flue fue At the tho first alarm three throe members of the club Dr F P. P L. L Brick Judge H. H H. H Henderson aud A A. A B Corey grabbed their overcoats o and made a a. dash forthe for forthe the stairs tRin When they reached the third floor they w were rc nearly overcome by smoke Wrapping their overcoats tl about th their ir lie ds they the felt their way to the ground floor and to safety Eight Caught As in Trap The Tho other eight were not so fortu nate So quickly did the flames and Jn l smoke envelope en the building that b bv by bythe the tho time they had bad Teach reached d the third floor their descent was a barred Breaking Break Break- inc ing open the door leading to the law office of Charles Hollingsworth the eight men rushed in and closed the tho door looT as best they could behind them Raising a window on Twenty-fourth Twenty street they shouted for help It was twenty minutes s before a a. ladder ladder lad lad- der could be raised One by one seven of the men worked their way slowly down the tho ladder Then came the cry that there Wa was still a man in the room Thomas Thoma ll Feeney ney proprietor of of the v volunteered to go for bun him The Tho room wa ws filled with smoke c but F Feeney soon found Isaac Deitman a wholesale cigar d dealer nearly o er overcome ome by smoke F Feeney uT urged ed Deitman to go SO down Continued on pa page e t NO HOPE Continued from page 1 L the ladder but so 80 great wa was hi his bis fear that he be refused to 1110 move lIe He said he might as bS 8 well vell die lie in iu t the h flames astall us JIS fall tall flom the ladder and be dashed to pieces ou on the pa pu below Feeney finally tied a over Deitman's lc s 's c eyes cs and led him to the window Then getting out himself on the ladder rio lie guided the of the fear crazed man maim from the window to th the ladder and step by bv step tei down it until until un un- un til the sidewalk was WItS safely reached And None Too Soon A minute later the top floor of the building which had been belll a mass ml of flames for ten tn or fifteen minutes together together to to- gether ether with the tho roof fell in in in throwing H a shower of sparks hi high h in the air an an and anI on to the buildings s. s Fifteen minutes later ilie fourth floor fell a seething furnace to the floor below Again gaiu ain a great shower of 01 burning embers flew high into the air nir ir irand and lod on on to the surrounding buildings s. s n By ily this time Chief Canfield realized that it would bp ho impossible to save sae the Eccles building and he lie nail ud- ud his men amen used ill all of their of-their their efforts in ill trying to save tho surrounding property mind and mindo to o confine the tho flames within tho build build- building iu ing in which hick they started Weather Helps Firemen Fn Tn this thi work ork they thew were aided b. b by two thin things thing lI ham nain aud and sleet snow had bad falling for sonic some time prior prior to the breaking out ont of tho time fire firc This had partially soaked the roofs of adjoin- adjoin in ini buildings s. s and nd Dd with the water pla played cl by the firemen prevented any of the buildings catching fire The heavy heay walls of the Erces building also did much to prevent the time spread pread of the fi fire Bv n 10 0 o'clock lock all hope bopo of savin saving the Eccles building or r auy any of its contents was past Tho rho firemen however continued con coil all nil ni night ht to play water on eu the vault of f the Commercial National bank t to save e the time contents In this tins it is said they were probably success succesS- ful While the fire was at the fiercest t and anel every member of the Ogden den fire department enga engaged ed in Lighting fighting it n a number of volunteers volunteers- were secured Among niong these were n bart Anderson it eit jailer at O Ogden den and aud Geor George George- o Wardlaw Ward Ward- law a a member of the detective force of that city These men took a line lino of hose mid arid undertook to play the stream into the Washington ton avenue entrance of ef th the Utah Stationery corn com Volunteers Hit by Stone ThEY had been at work wort but a 3 few fer minutes when a piece of stone from froum the tho top of the building fell struck on a aldge ledge on ou the fourth floor broke and falling to tho time street struck both men amen menon meun on n the head The Tho men were kl knocked unconscious They were quickly picked up and medical rued mod ical assistance summoned A After Her a hasty lasty examination they were taken to the tho Dee Deo memorial memoria hospital At kt noon today it was said that there therewa was wal little hope for the recovery of Anderson but that War Wardlaw law has just justa a slim chance chane to pull through h. h Operations Operations Opera- Opera Jons were p on both men this morning morning- Fireman I L. L Phillips was injured by glass hass falling falling- from one one- of the windows window he ac was ut eat about the head and ami face but it is is' is said his injuries arc not Sen serious ous Hurt Mr and Mrs F. F Barton were not injured at the fire fire- but on oa their way to see sec it Tim Thi They y attempted to make mako a short cut across Where the Hurst building build build- in ing is bein being erected and both fell from the time ground floor to the time basement of the building They Ihy wein taken to th hospital J. J where examinations showed that Mrs rs Barton had llad sustained a compound fracture of the time left leg boye th the ankle Mr Bartons Barton's collar hone ono was broken and aud his hill face injured They were vero taken home homo this thia afternoon A number of of members of the Ogden fire ire department had narrow escapes from rom falling falling- glass ass and timber and had bad hadit hadt it t not been for the strict orders of Chief Canfield and Chief of Police Browning there is hi little litte question that many would have hae been seriously in in- jurea jurca Chief Canfield after two men inca who ho he says went to their post without without with with- without out his knowledge had been hurt gave strict orders that the firemen keep keel far farenough farenough farenough enough back haek from the time building to escape escape escape es es- es- es cape falling failing stones bricks or 01 timber Crowd Gives Trouble Chief Browning and his huis men had a astill astill astill still harder barder Jill in keeping back themore the tho themore more than 5 OO persons who gathered to o witness the biggest fire in iii the history history his- his tory ory of Ogden It lt was only o after ropes had been stretched and the chief gave orders to rest arrest an any person that ero crossed sed them that anything like lik order prevailed pre All night long lone men menan an and women stood and watched the fight right of the firemen At 9 o'clock this thil morning more than 1000 persons still watched the work of putting out the thelast last ast embers A blindin blinding snowstorm at times imes raged so hard bard that it was almost impossible to see across tho time street One of the heaviest individual losers in n the tho fire was is-as S. S A. A Maginnis A law library much of of- which of-which which it is impossible to o replace comprising hundreds of volumes vol- vol imes umes which had been gathered by his father ather tho the late lato W. W L. L Maginnis went u up in the flames not a single volume of what was one of the the- the finest nest law libraries in n the state was saved This morning mornin young Maginnis wandered about the ruined building like 3 a mean man in a dream he ic had bad not only emily lost his bis library but he had bad lost hundreds hundreds- of volumes over which his father and mind he be hall hail studied many many hours boms together they were books boo connected with the of memories The Commercial National bank banI opened for fol busin business ss as usual this morn- morn ing ng but in the Ogden Sain Savings s bank A majority Da of the others who lost r e every every- hine thine- arc preparing today to open new I I in other th i parts of the time city The Weber club has bas been offered the use of the tho Elks' Elks clubrooms until they can call secure quarters of their thir own At noon Doon today architects were examining examining exam exam- ining the tIle walls of the building to see if it would be possible to use them Unofficially Un Un- officially it was stat stated Id I'd that by the tearing tear tear- tn tar ing down of the two top floor walls the time theother theother other three might bo he used This however how ever is doubted by many Just as to what caused the tho fire may never be known Chief Can Canfield Caufield eld is of the opinion that it started at the time electrical elec switchboard which was located near the tho elevator shaft in tho the base base- ment s sIt It was claimed in O Ogden den this morning morning morning morn morn- ing that not riot only did tho the elevator ele shaft shafta a act t a as a a. flue for the flames but that the hi bi big chimney chimney- h on the south side of tf oft i t the e building had a a. wood easing casing or air shaft partly parth- around it and that through thi this the flames shot from floor to floor This is the second time that the time has been gutted bv by lire fire On the night of March 14 H. 1893 fire lire was discovered in the building It became so 0 fierce erco that the lire fire department of Salt Lake City was called on for help belp and a part Dart of the apparatus from this city city- was sent seat to fo Ogden and assisted in in saving saving- the time business section of the city ity The Th difference between tho the fire of last night and amid that of 1893 was that tim last lat night the fire fire- went from the top story story- down while in iu the other case it went front from the ground floor to the roof |