Show rs IN TWO LS IN N PERIL M fiERCE MC fIRE r 1 I of S Salt lt Lake Cleaning Com Coin ve Plant f follows Two a ad d Hotel Occupants Flee in Heroic Work by bV firemen 10 wo r- r hotels were thrown into a panic when 1 he dye and rooms cleaning of the Salt Lake pany in the rear of 27 East Third South fie hotels shortly before noon today l i ion 1 of gasoline was followed by a second port t which sh shook ok the walls walls' of the building room lung burst into flames as one gas one of the most stubborn the department had to fight So sudden was wa's was the spread that although the first companies were on oni i 1 in five minutes after the fire started the pitch such headway that it was after more thanh than RUCh h hardest kind of work on the part of the en- en m that they were brought under control Y HALF AN H HOUR UR AND NORMANDY AND FLED WITH ID D CARRY FROM ITHE WERE ITHE RUSH TO WHAT WERE DoOMED BUILD BUILD- VAS LAS POSSIBLE HOTELS HIRED SIR KIR ROOMS AND k hat thab there were v f bit the fhe f who wh l ad Ifor The firemen remen m the rear of men rushed cue the women and ande e south th side of the fire fire cried an eX er- the third floor door a volume of smoke ack c Three of the nearest water tap handkerchiefs tied g. g S Then they crept h of the rooms Ind in ind d dl children were sup sup- door was unlocked the lof the smoke filled smoke filled cal eal calf the the presence of ak Imen men were leaving eavin Thief hief Crosby and a entered Centered Crosby fi took i fire fighters fighters through the rooms d a hand chemical ea at every point it turned remen mass benally benally be- be nally compelled to toa a hort time on ac- ac Only for a mined min- min ved ed to breathe the lerf end of the haIl hall dered Crosby lead lead- went Five gave orders iw minutes out and andi wilding i referring Normandy hotel As street street he ho gave or- or on also aIso to go hotel li ute the chemical om om- the dye works moo mid to the rear of off off f f bf Of the building in 11 1 w was s burning Inn In n nut it takes to tell it ithe he roof was bein being Is Island and water were es CS Chief Crosby was 1 U vi th t the II men m in f cal machine Chief Ohie ess an important lily 1110 directed direct the the flaming id not ask his men mel J ot Lost j J nother another exciting acted t e in the front anent nt rt employees insist- insist pe ore one of ot the pro pro- building just before fi i then went f nt back hack ko ice o of the young 00 baCk cried ant an- an t r ind that Mr reached oe ched home bome and back to tb the j es es- out of the noticing noti him nr mr the establish establish- e those thoe of the thet j t Lyman leather an trunks trunk The t i Vincent den n Japanese l goods 1 and its guests there erl w. w WM wa more morea a than one hundred g guests ests including A. A H. H King and wife of Detroit Mich H. H C. C Beason Season and wife of Kansas City Mo A. A Koff and wife of Buffalo N. N Y J. J T T. Hamilton of Chica Chicago o and a large e number of guests from Bingham Eureka Eureka Eureka Eure Eure- ka Park City Ogden and other Utah towns as we as from Eastern and arid West Western rn cities Shortly before it was was believed th that t the fir fire was U under lder control in in the dyeing factory th the alarm was again given from the oIe hotels hotel's second floor A number of private ate citizens responded respond d dt t to the al alarm rm as tile the department w was was s enga engaged engaged en en- ga ed on on- west the the west side of the fire rooms Three Three rooms rooms on the second floor were forced open forced open and the bedding f found und on fire A few buckets of water extinguished extin extin- what might have proven a Serious serious serious seri seri- ous blaze R Scheller proprietors of the dye works assert that they do not know the cause of the fire A I 11 I left the dyeing establishment for forthe forthe forthe the front part of the store with some of the help heIJ shortly after 1130 0 o'clock said Mr after the flames were under control There was no sign of fire at that time I am a at a how loss loto to know how it happened happened The entire works is ruined but we will wilI be dohs doing oinK business again by Thursday morn morn- morn morn- m ing That hat it was a gasoline explosion there is little or no doubt in the minds of the firemen One of the runners at atthe atthe atthe the hotel asserted this afternoon that he was on the third floor of the Metro Metro- pole at about 1140 0 clock I heard something like an explosion explosion sion he said I got ot to the window just in time to hear another explosion and to see the top and sides of the dye w works fall faU in and aud out Almost at the same time flames shot into the air I Iran Iran Iran ran to the nearest telephone and turned in the alarm Someone had turned it in before I had and the department was here it seemed to me in in a second The dye works owners place their loss at 2500 The damage damage to the tho Metro Metro- pole hotel building will not amount to or the loss to the guests and others in the hotel will foot up to about The loss to the other damaged buildings s by fire smoke and water will win likely am amount to 00 |