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Show VALUABLE LIBRARIES AND RECORDS LOST IN BLAZE Tenants of Atlas Block Damaged in Ways That Can Hardly Be Estimated. 1 -.- mmwm The losses suffered by the people who ; bad offices in the Atlas block will run into many thousands of dollars. There were nearly 100 people occupying offices In the building and the insurance on their properties was not of an amount to nearly cover the damage done by the fire. Doctors, dentists, lawyers, mining men, manufacturers' agents, and in fact almost every class of professional and business men were among the sufferers. suffer-ers. Fine libraries that had taken years to collect and that were highly prized by their owners, fine sets of doctors', dentists' and occullsts' tools, mineral cabinets containing specimens- from every mine and prospect hole in this part of the country, records of transactions transac-tions involving millions of dollars all sre an undlstlngulshable mass mixed in with- the debris. . . In an office on the second floor was the Salt Lake dental, depot, owned by Dr. E. A. Tripp, in which were stored dental supplies valued by Dr. Tripp at 112,000. He was carrying only $4500 Insurance. In-surance. - W. R. Hutchinson lost a law library he has been fifteen years collecting and that he valued at $4000. He had 'no Insurance. In-surance. .- . ' City Attorney George Nye lost a library li-brary worth $3000, and office fixtures. He had $1500 insurance. The Peters barber shop, with fixtures, was worth $5000. The barbers saved their razors, but nothing . else. Loss covered by Insurance. C. M. West, office furniture, worth $500; no insurance. F. H. Hyde, whose collection agency was on the third floor, sustained a loss of about $1000, not to mention accounts which cannot be replaced. G. H. . Hirschvogel, the traveling salesman who had Buch a narrow escape, es-cape, had all his samples in the building. build-ing. They were worth $2000 and were not Insured. Dr. Scott's office fixtures and instruments, instru-ments, including a new X-ray machine, were valued at $5000. He is Insured for $1000. The Pacific Express company occupied occu-pied four offices in the Atlas block, which contained all the records of the western division from Cheyenne to San Francisco for years back. No estimate can be made of their value, but their loss will be a serious matter to the company. Their fixtures were worth $2000. F. E. McQurrin puts his loss at $2000 and insurance at $1000. His cash was kept in a vault and a fireproof safe. The vault was anchored to the west wall and was still standing when the fire subsided. Drs. King and Greene lost a valuable library and a complete set of surgical and electrical instruments. Bradstreet's commercial agency lost records dating from its establishment in Salt Lake. The intrinsic value was not large, but it will take years to replace re-place the records. 1 Lawyer Schaeffer lost his library valued val-ued at $5000. "Our los is nothing," said F. E. Mc-Gurrin Mc-Gurrin of McGurrin & Co. "Every security se-curity and document we have Is in the fire vaults and our furniture and fixtures fix-tures are fully Insured. We shall simply sim-ply lose a little time and be put to some Inconvenience in seeking new quarters." |