Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-12-01 | Page 12 | One Dead, Nine Hurt in Blaze

ONE DEAD NINE HURT IT IN BLAZE Falling Wall Wal Throws 1 10 Q Firemen Firemen Fire Fire- men Into Flaming Debris pen Four Near Death v Xv DENVER Dec 1 AP AP-An AP An A-An An assistant as as- Denver fire tiro chief died to today toda today to- to day da and anti four tour firemen remen hurled with him bins hi into a furnace of flames at a n spectacular downtown fire tire last las lat night night were In a serious condition after aier they were rescued from under tons of ot debris Five other firemen trapped when s a 1 huge section of ot brick wall wan collapsed collapsed col col- col lapsed into the gutted fire plant o othe of th the Midwest Trunk Tunk and Ba Bag Manufacturing Manu company at 1524 FIfteenth Fl- Fl t nth street were were in hospitals Andrew Mah Mahon n. n assistant chief who was burled buried under burning debris as a he lie was wa tossed by the fallIng falling fall faU- I Ing wall into the center of ot the mass massof massof mas' mas of flames died early this morning Firemen Harry Harr Works Yorks Lond Londi R Ross ss Eugene F. F Sullivan Sulvan and W V W WM M M. Behrman were seriously h hurt rt I Physicians said they may not re re re- cover The Th less seriously hurt were Firemen Firemen Fire Fire- men Inca Charles Jones Ralph D. D Paul John Jon A. A Kessels Herbert F. F Jacob Jacob- Jacob aon n on and nd James H. H Wood The 10 were catapulted from ladders laders lad lad- tiers ders ers near the top of tho the Midwest Trunk and Bag Manufacturing company building in the heart of a midtown wholesale district last night when a D section of wall caved In i. i While Wie cries of or horror went up from to the tho hundreds of spectators atthe atthe at the blaze blae firemen on the ground I dropped hose lines Jnes and risking danger dang to themselves heroically dug the 10 from the pile pie of ot red hot bricks and arId twisted debris r rAn An overheated stove was wa wa given iven tentatively as a the cause cuse of the fire Both the trunk company buildIng buildIng build build- Joth Ing ng and the te adjacent structure occupied occupied oc oe oc- oc by the Colorado Implement company copany were gutted