Show OGDEN hehl FIHE OSS BLAZE DESTROYS PEERY BUILD INQ ING AND threatened TO DEMOLISH ENTIRE SECTION every ever bit of apparatus in city old ales to control flames police and nd Volute Vo luters ors olve give ald store stock ruined birden flar aes consumed coni umed a total ot of in property and nd goods hero early thursday morning when tho the most spectacular binze blaze in local hie his tory pitted gutted the D 11 II peery building on washington avenue between Twenty fourth and twenty fifth atre eti completely destroying stocks and ad furnishings of the lait last thornas thomas department tore stori the he wisteria Wi starl candy tore store and the Arling arlington toa hotel homed housed la IQ th the structure defection Detect Defect bo IO wiring waa was ghen as an cause of the blaze only about one half of the loaa loss la Is covered by ln suran e for per hours biery 01 cry available aral table bit of firefighting ap paratha in tho the city struggled grimly to prevent threatened destruction 0 of f the entire business section of the city at dawn the fire was still raging 1 along the walls of the de do strayed building while firemen police and volunteer helpers directed their efforts to protection of adjoining property the adiv clr broke out at 11 wednesday night in a display win dow of the department store passersby turned in en an alarm but before tire fire apparatus ralus could roach the scene the flames fed by highly combustible at atocha 4 had lied cotton rotten beyond control an the conflagration raged police and ft amen aided occupants occupant a of the build ing lo 10 escape hose iless lines were run la in from every angle and steady streams of water poured into the leap ing names and soaked walls of adjacent structures in the hope to save nave them from the destructive destruct ire element sky illumination from the gigantic pyre attracted thousands of residents reil dents from whom volunteer workers were pressed into service contents of the building not actually touched by the fire are were rendered valueless by smoke and water while tumbling walls completed the work of demolition 0 |