Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-01-07 | Page 10 | Fire at D. & R. G. Soon Put out, but Chief Has Complaint

f lltE AT D. & R. G. SOON PUT OUT, BUT - CHIEF HAS COMPLAINT Says Watchmen Delayed in Sending Oat the Alarm. A Ore which started at S.-f o'clock this morning In the yards of the Denver ft TUu Urunde ralltoud between Third kutli and Fourth South streets, on Htxih Wvpt street, caused Ihe entire destruction of tha tlnshop and foreman's office and threatened the entire round houae and machine ma-chine shops. It la estimated that $0O0 waa tha amount of damage done. Tha fire was d1sfivered by watchmen at tha yards and they st temped to extinguish ex-tinguish the blase without the a sat eta nee of tha lira department, but after fifteen minutes of this effort they called for help. Chief Hy water and the apparatus from tha central station responded to tha call and soon had two streams of water playing play-ing on the blase. It Is thought tliat bad not tha (Ira department arrived at the time It did, tha roundhouse and machine shops would have been destroyed, aa Uey were already starting to burn. Chief William H. By water's Ira was much aroused at what he termed the carelessneea of the watchmen. He says tliat In view of the fact that there U a fire alarm box within fifty feet of where the Are started. U enould have been used. "When wo did arrive," eaye the chief, ''those who were there seemed to take our arrival aa a Joke, and made no effort to help us, either by removing soma of the numerous cars or helping ua do so. r had plenty of water, but could not work to advantage on account of tha many impediments. The watchmen that had been working on the fire prior to our arrival stood by and laughed." OftVclala at the yarda when aaked to explain this state of affairs, say titer have heard nothing of the matter, and that they will begin an Investigation at once. Members of tha fire department have been on the scene all day. in tha fear that tha blase will attain break out Tha loss waa well covered by Insurance.