Show STUBBORN FIRE HITS ALTA CLUB Blaze Caus Causes s Damage of Over r 7 A stubborn fire that crept inside walls and floOr floors efforts of firemen firemen firemen fire fire- men brike out Tuesday noon in the Alta Ala club excl exclusive Salt Lake City society center at South Temple and State streets The blaze started from an unknown source in the basement shot up lip a 0 combination dumb waiter and clothes Picture on Page 12 chute chule to the third floor and mushroomed mushroomed mush mush- roomed in spaces inside walls and floors E E. L. L Pratt Prall club manager and Walter Vial Wai- Wailer ler ter Weston r were trapped for lor 25 minutes in a room on the third floor noor where they hid had gone to awaken club residents resident who might have been sleeping late They found their exit from a room bl blocked blacked by flame and smoke filling illi g the hall ball and were to leave Until until until un un- til firemen cleared their way Firemen's efforts were confined to the second and nd third floors The bl blaze was soon brought under control but stubbornly resisted attempts at at- tempts to extinguish it As fast fat as firemen had chopped into one wall or floor to pour in water a G new blaze would be discovered Gaping holes in walls floor loor and ceilings w were re left leU behind a as the firemen firemen firemen fire fire- men fought the blaze in the only POSsible possible possible pos POS- sible way The oak ceiling in the dining room of ot the second floor noor was almost pieces pie because of the fire firc I raging in a four-foot four space between it and the flooring above it Mr Pratt said o ci few oe occupants of the bachelors quarters oli on the third floor were in their rooms when the fire fire broke broke out The They left their rooms safely Thirty five firemen and all the equipment that answers answer business district dis dis- dis triet alarms responded to the alarm At 1235 p p. p m. m they had the blaze un under uno un- der cr control but were still stilt fighting it I A Assistant Chief W. W J J. Hancock estimated esti esti- mated to the tho building at and to 0 contents at 1500 The fire ws discovered by Emma Broberg a chambermaid who saw the flames rush up the clothes chute Ed Fuegi a chef turned in the thc alarm larm |