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Show FIRE AT EUREKA Hard Work of the Firemen Fire-men Saves a Hotel From Destruction. Special to The Telegram. EUREKA, Utah, Jan, 7. The Eureka hotel, a frame structure, was damaged by Ore early Saturday morning; and it was feared for a time that ths entire building would be destroyed. ' A guest of the hotel, occupying a room over the kitchen, went to sleep and left a candle burning on a table near the bed. This burned down to the table. Igniting It and filling the room with flames. The guest escaped without with-out Injury, and the alarm was sounded. The flames quickly spread through the rear of the hotel, and the fire department depart-ment had hard work to prevent the destruction de-struction of the entire building. The blase was extinguished in forty-five forty-five minutes, and it was found that more damage had been caused by water wa-ter than by fire. R. O. Wilson of Salt Lake, owner of the hotel, who came up on the first train, said that his loss was fully covered cov-ered by Insurance. Mrs. Thomas Stew-ardson, Stew-ardson, who conducts the hotel, and who owns the furniture, is the heaviest loser. She was partly insured. One of the volunteers wbo was assisting assist-ing the firemen, had a narrow escape from death. While working on the second sec-ond floor, the room in which he was stationed was surroundea by fire, and his escape through the halls was cut off. He Jumped from the window to the the ground, eighteen feet, and suffered a number of bad bruises and several slight burns. |