Deseret Evening News | 1901-09-04 | Page 3 | Incendiary Plot

I Plot 1101 I Chicago Sept 4 What the firemen J tar fay r wn ii a II well uell arranged plan to des HP bs th the h theater building In I Withington street opposite the city 1411 was wat made mad shortly after midnight nt Y building ix Is i a n Jd tad bd of the rooms are arc occupied as i t by b various arious firms The TIll prin oil dra occupant Is the music muMe mu l hull hall com corn II Pasy now DOl operating opera the tho thea then it Fire Marshall Horan antI w Us men discovered evidences of ot been In a r rom nm on the fourth floor e nu evidence eld now lOW In the hands of at the tho I we fre rt consists of ot one on large e er r btttle containing gasoline two ca ses Oiled with kerosene and several everal Mies burned burn almost t to the end did Tho Vito tIt also aIm have a 11 bundle of ot rugs wM ked In oil fl and aM am a quantity of charred on the hoot floor n a train of or N wa tras a nl also ulo found nd n Tte Tle fire was first discovered by b who Yore by ha J M J like hike n a small explosion An Anif n if alarm I Wu wag M tIen Irn but the c quick arrive arrival 4 I the nA lire Or fe department prevented what i ve been a tire fire The Tho tift ft explosion occurred after atler r it li ter was WD os closed clo eel Is i regarded as 2 lotI aest fort fortunate n te It If the explosion as nil had earlier In tile the m i I dl might have hwo M a there Were Merc man h I n a the i many L hou The matter will be beIt It hits rou hIV Investigated 11 by Y the author