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Show Three Companies Battle Apartment House Blaze, I Three companies of Salt Lake firemen,- led by Assistant Chief William J. Hancock, subdued a spectacular apartment house blaze at 371-373 East Twenty-first South street late Wednesday afternoon. Damage was set at $3000. The roof of the structure, a two-, story frame and brick building. , collapsed shortly alter the fire crews arrived, but none was In- jured. Chief Hancock said all the . occupants escaped before the fire, . thought to have been started by small boys playing with red kerosene kero-sene canteens in a shed behind the building, swept to the upper section sec-tion of the dwelling. Mrs. Lucile Roberts, Truman Curtis. Ted Scalund and J. O. Ap-plegarth Ap-plegarth were the occupants. |