Show 2 FIREMEN HURT IN SUGAR SUGARHOUSE HOUSE BLAZE FLAMES SWEEP 3 BUIlDINGS IN BUSINESS AREA ARfA Granite Furniture Store Store Golden Rule Warehouse Ware Ware- house Burn DAMAGE IS Firemen Hurt When pr r nice pice Collapses By Lyle Downing Two firemen were injured three persons narrowly escaped and property valued at was destroyed In a spectacular lar early morning fire which swept two buildings and a warehouse in inthe inthe the heart of the Sugarhouse busl- busl ess district Thursday The injured Fire Captain A A. L. L engine company No 7 dislocated right shoulder and cuts and bruises Frank Olsen hoseman engine company No 4 finger severed and ruts cuts and bruises Time The tire fire brok out shortly before beCore 6 6 o'clock in a storeroom above time the Golden Rule store at 1056 1036 East I Twenty first South street and ands s spread to the three story Granite Granito Furniture company building GENERAL ALARM SOUNDED When the first fire company headed by Battalion Chief Andrew arrived ed the two buildings were enveloped In a mass ot of roarIng roaring roar roar- Ing flames A general alarm was turned tui-ped n by C let Eikrem and all available fire apparatus in Salt Lake was at the scene within a few minutes minute Attempts to keep koop time the fire spreading to a a warehouse at time tho rear of the furniture store were futile fu- fu tile and within twenty minutes after after af- af ter the general alarm the furniture storage building was burned to time the ground Mrs E. E A. A White who lives lives' lit in ina lita a cottage In the rear ot of the Golden Rule store was as the first person to discover the fire She Sime to find her bedroom enveloped lit dense smoke She aroused her bus hus band and old 2 son Junior and they fled In their night cloth cloth- lag Ing Mrs White called the fire do- do TENANTS RUSH OUT Clouds of oC smoke swept over tho Wilshire apartments at nth Elev East and Twenty first South Tho cry of fire brought thirty tenants ot of the place Into the street By playing their hoses UPon time the apartment house the Granite lain lain- her ber yard ard and other property In the Continued on page 4 FLAMES SWEEP i 1 3 BUILDINGS IN IN BUSINESS AREA Continued from page I. I vicinity firemen were able to keep the flames front from further spreading The exact cause ot of tile the fire had not beers been determined late ThursdaY b bit lt officials of the the- theire ire fire department declared that detective defective wiring In a furniture spraying machine in the of the Granite Granito Furniture company company on the floor floon above the Golden Rule store may have started blaze HEAVY DAMAGE J. J A. A Rockwood manager of the Furniture company refused to definitely set the damage until the fire Insurance adjusters corn Com their investigation Estimates made by the firs fire department indicated indi- indi that In furniture was destroyed and that damage was done to tile the property which was all owned by the Granite Furniture company V V. V W. W Southworth manager of the Golden Goiden Rule company declared In stock was destroYed Its in that establishment Tile The furniture warehouse was valued at according according ac- ac cording to members of the compan corn com pan pany Eighty per cent of the loss is 13 covered by insurance Rockwood stated that eight carloads carloads car car- loads of furniture had been added to the stock of the Granite Furniture Furniture Furni- Furni ture company a week ago All that furniture as well weli as four Cour other carloads carloads car car- loads of oC household goods and radio equipment In the warehouse and store were destro edALL ed ALL COMPANIES ON SCENE The fire alarm was received at 5 51 a. a m. m Two companies front from and the Sugarhouse station responded On Oct the second alarm FIre Chief Walter S. S Knight with all the remaining equipment from headquarters responded Within a few minutes all equipment from outlYing stations was In ser ser- vice For a time the fire threatened to SWE sweep P the entire Sugarhouse business bustness bust bust- ness area Mrs White who sounded the 1 fIrst alarm declared that when site she awoke the rear of the furniture was a mass of flames and the shed covering a a. storage tank contaIning con con- taming gallons of gasoline was burning The fire did not reach the thega ga gasoline tank Captain and Hoseman Olsen were injured when a cornice at the rear ot of the furniture store collapsed Battalion Chief Eikrem saw the cornice when It started to tall fall He shouted a a. warning to two hose companIes working on ladders below it All the firemen except the two t who were Injured jumped to safety |