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Show , . x. - " O ' T ' 'r- r- r ' TT A " """V The space EetVetn tLe walls cf the Atlas block and that ef the D. F, Walk er block Is probably all that saved the latter from destruction. Many of the occupants of the D. F. Walker block feared fo a while that the bull dins would go. The smoke surged through; the halls, and the lawyers, brokers and others removed what effects they could carry from the building down Into the street. ' Vandal at Work. . In the streets, and even la the. builds Ing, the vandals were at work, and many coats and portable articles of v value were stolen. . The loss from theft will more than exceed that from'anjj other source la this building. Wall Broken. The walla were brokea through' oa Ihd west side In the offices of Drs. McDowell and Carpenter and the Charm Mining and MUllng company. The hole were small, but served to let fa a large cuan ! tlty of suffocating smoke and some w. ter, but damage from these was not a1 . great as that caused la the rough han- dling of the furniture la it removal. Crawled on Hi Knees. J. H. Cllve of the Charm Mining and Milling company left his most valuable papers In a desk In the rear office last ' night. When he heard of the fire tbla morning he at once went for the papers. A wall of dense smoke nearly suffocated him when he opened the door, but getting get-ting down on his knees, he crawled Into the other room and secured the papers. Mr. Cllve said the stocks were not put In the bank last night as usual, and many others in the building confess to carelessness in having left valuable papers pa-pers and documents la their desks. Damage to Oxford. ' Considerable damage was done la the Oxford saloon by the falling of the east wall of the Atlas block and by fire la the rear of the building. The plaster of the ceiling nearly all fell, destroying large mirrors and paintings; some of -" the large elks' heads fell fnom. the wall. , The damage will reach Into the) thou sands of dollars. . The damage In the barber shop of Jo seph Strack, 43 West Second South, was all done by water, and is estimated at about J 700, covered by Insurance. Hemoved Furnishings. ' The officers bf the Wilson ft Sherman company in the rear of The Telegram business office. 62 West Second South, became frightened and -moved all their furnishings out. The Are, however, did not reach them, and they Incurred no loss further than a few castors from their desks. The Telegram did not But- -fer any loss. . i Tobacco Stock Damag-edC In the basement, under Whltaker Dallas' cigar store, 60 West Second South, a large stock of tobacco, cigars and cigar leaves was damaged to a greater or less extent. Just what the ' damage . will be could not be aacer-i tamed. It is all covered by Insurance, Losses In Central Block. The damage to the Central fclorfo which Is situated the Salt Lake Hardware Hard-ware company, will be very heavy. The Immense quantity of water being -poured on the wall la having a damaging damag-ing effect. The Are was confined to the rear half of the building and raged the fiercest on the second floor, where were situated situat-ed the offices of quite a number of business busi-ness men. In this section, the damage dam-age by Are Is complete. In the front, however, the damage will result mostly most-ly from smoke and water. The following are the names of those who suffered damage la the Central block, by fire and water: S. P. Armstrong. Dr. Ij. B. Brown T. C. Crawford. j lu W. Critchlow. I J. E. Darmer. C. H. Griffin. ' Robert GorlinskL, Jessie Grant. W. I Goodsell. . . - Happy Hour Dental company,' I D. Hodge. E. M. LeProhon. ; T. B.- Laymon. ' ; May Day Mining. Edward Nlssen. B. C. Rives A. C. Sadler. ' . W. F. Neslen. J. C. Stewart. ( ' Waterman' Bros. . i Damaged by "Water. V In the office of the Utah' Demurrage association, the loss to furniture from ' water and the falling roof at the south-east south-east corner will be in the neighborhood of $1000, covered by Insurance. R. K, Roland secured all the records of the association before the collapse of the offices. v Had Narrow Escape. S. P. Armstrong, attorney-at-law. who occupied rooms 17-18 in the Central Cen-tral block, lost everything he had there. . and but barely escaped with his life. He was awakened about 2:45 this morning . by the fh-emen in the hall and slipped Into his lothes. He then gathered up" all his papers and placed them la the waste basket ready to carry them out. His attention, however, was arrested by something In the hall and he stepped from the room. ' He had only left the rooms when there was a crash and his ' office effects were buried beneath th brick of the falling wall of the Atlas block. Mr." Armstrong's loss will be several hundreds of dollars, partly covered cov-ered by Insurance. Hi Third Fire Loss. ! ' Judge K. D. Hoge, who had an office in the rear of the Central block, lost everything he had. Not a single paper was saved. This is the third time the Judge has been burned out since coming com-ing to this city, but still he doe not look upon the situation with mora ' equanimity than many of the others. |