Show s i W i iARE I AR ARE BURNED TO GROUND Fire Fire Start Starting tn in the Boiler Room Causes Caus s a Loss of WILL REBUILD PLANT Q AS POSSIBLE Officials of Company Are Undaunted by Destruction Destruction tion of WorKs I Pi iro 1 lo t starting in tho file boiler rooms of th the Inland Crystal Salt company's plant near Saltair last nl night ht completely destroyed the hu huge o plant doing 10 dama damage o in two hour hours The Tho plant was insured for tho the officers haying having nold beld to the opinion that tho the buildings saturated with salt were fireproof This Thi was pro proven en a n. fallacy last night when Then the hu huge e structure m ltd lt Mat uni erthe erthe er or orthe the fierce strength of tho flames 11 fire seemed to fe feed on the suit silt ned and The rho frame fr buildings s bura d with nith in ins rapidity Entering the boiler boBe rooms about o'clock last night tho the night watchman discovered diE flames James shooting from tie the machinery Before tho the workmen nt at the plant ant could bo aroused and formed into bucket racket brigades tho the flames had eat 1 clear through h to t tho o roof and in an i in incredibly itS credibly short time the creat great plant pant covering co many acres neres was a n seething mass of flames and smoke mo c. c Forty o carloads of re refined salt ready rend for shipment ship ship- shipment ment destroyed Every er Every piece picco of machinery in iu th the refining house was as destroyed c and nd nothing was spared bythe by bythe the flames The workmen ba had been heen absent from the tho building but hut one oue hour when the they were called from their cottages tto to assist assist as t in the fight ficht to save Sl the buildings if possible Thor The numbered thirty five tho the oth other r employees of the plant hav hn having ins ing gone cone to tho the cit city or to Garfield Garfied for forth forthe th the nj night hL Fire Fighting Ineffectual y bucket ket lino was formed d. d but the 1 Iu puny eff efforts of the men hindered tho fire fir not in the least Although it was apparent from the beginning that nothing noth t in ins ing could be done Bono to save savo the plant the brigade n never never er onto stopp stopped d fi fighting I from flom th the time the firo fire was Tas reported until embers were only onh smoking Buckets of t salt aH were cre passed from man manto manto to man and 11 laid over the roofs roof of the remaining buildings g to save savo them Men c waded modal 1 through flamo flame and smoke to do this and iu in several cases cases' narrow escapes from death th reported Wives Wives' an and daughters of tho the em om employee ci y who live in small cottages es rl bv In the company company stood in line and fought ht for hours Cottages Aro Are Saved H Seem tho futility or or of attempting to toM M savo the the- big plant the f fighters looked looke to their heir cottages 3 and tl tho o office build build- building H ld- ld ing iut of the company The flames fJames soon M qu spread to tho the loner long warehouse wherein stored hundreds of carloads of salt df This warehouse so is so close to the tho cottages that they vero immediately endangered ered The They were saved aed from front the tho flames however how ever The The first news of tho the firo fire reached this j city in the form of a telephone mosaic Ocl t e from Saltair beach to Joseph Nelson on a stockholder in tho salt corn com pony pm In half an hour officials of tho the salt company were were speeding toward the fire firo on a special train over the tho Saltair mute loute The rhe tight sight that met their eyes a was a n desolate one Tho The bi big buildings ivere cra crashing hint into smoldering r ruins and the flames were ero rJ fast t catin eating through thelast the lat last of the buildings the warehouse Will Rebuild Plant Nothing co could ld be dono dODO and not Ion long after atter the train returned to town with the company officials No Xo ono one could 1 offer a J. J satisfactory explanation ex ex- of the tho origin oricin of tb fire al albough although al bough though it is generally supposed that sparks from the smokestack ignited the roof which in turn in bomo peculiar manner lUanner started the tho boiler room machinery ma mar chinery chiner to burn Around tho the plant is a little colony of workmen whoso livelihood depends on the tho plant plan Officials stated last night almost before the old od buildings l were gone oue that a new nc plant would be bo erected on an eves even larger scale cale |