Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-08 | Page 1 | As Roaring Flames Leveled Structure

I r m. m AS ROARING FL FLAMES MES LEVELED St STRUCTURE E 1 k i. i of i y a i t r r. r p SG S S t Qc f 5 S 5 S S S' S sS I wr 4 F w S St N 5 N Y v ur b 4 Three Youths Sound Alarm Of Blaze at Railroad it Shops Boys who live around railroad yards and have a passion for railroading railroading rail- rail know when things are normal So when three of them saw brilliant light flickering in the wooden car shops of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad beneath the West Fourth South street viaduct at 7 p p. p m. m Friday night they knew instantly that something was wron wrong That at shop is ls closed at ih this s hour of f the night exclaimed Reginald Hay 13 of West Sixth South street reet to his companions Grant Christenson 15 and Ralph Christenson Chris Chrls- 1 tenson 13 of South Seventh West Wet street Besides the light Is Isoo is' is too oo bright and flickering to be an is acetylene torch With Reginalds Reginald's dog at his heels they hey raced down the viaduct and to toan ton I Ian an n engine house houle where they found DavId avid Gerrard engine dispatcher and nd J. J L. L Barr locomotive fireman Theres There a fire in the car shops A r ti Ati the boys shouted and one glance convinced the two railroad men that they were right Mr Barr pulled the hook of a fire alarm signal and a moment later the railroad fire-fighting fire equipment of the yards was in action So promptly had the boys acted that 10 minutes after they had detected detected detected de de- de- de the blaze five companies of city fire-fighting fire apparatus had joined the railroads railroad's company and were pouring streams of water Into the tha building LOOKING DOWN FROM 1 FOURTH SOUTH STREET VI VIADUCT DUCT ON RAILROAD SHOP FIRE General view of blaze that flint destroyed wood car shops of Denver Rio Grande Western Vc t rn ti w mss i a 3 a i a z TIns THIS SMOLDERING WRECKAGE OF RAILROAD SHOPS GREETED DAWN All that was left of Denver and Rio Grande Western Vest ern building i f r 2 b 4 e P y 4 SS r s SS K i m m m m. m m II HEROES OF 01 DE DENVER VER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN VESTERN SHOPS BLAZE Grant Christenson left Ralph Christenson and Reginald Hay with pet dog t