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Show fire Destroys Fern's Cafe Building on N. Main; Efforts of Volunteers Save Adjoining Mote! 1 5 -at Friday evening Moab r firemen answered f , -J1 from Carl Sprague of ;8owen Motel who found ;Maze in the old Fern's ;i building owned by. Lu-:; Lu-:; Tangren on 2nd North. 1 5 Spragues reported - saw smoke billow- 'rom the air conditioner ? "ie old business and A : ; to investigate, the door cafe was locked but : Prague could tell that fee was on fire and home and called the Stment. :!' time the Moab vol-arrived, vol-arrived, the fire had start and the men 'J unable to enter the 3 without serious dan gers from both the smoke and the flames. Bill Hines of the local department said that the blaze was hard to combat because it appeared to be burning in a false ceiling. ceil-ing. Two trucks from the Moab department were on the scene till well after 7 p.m. when the blaze was finally fin-ally controlled. For a time it appeared that the Bowen Motel might also be engulfed by the flames, but through the efforts ef-forts of the Moab team of volunteers, the blaze did not harm the motel. There was some water and smoke damage dam-age to an apartment rented by one of the maids for the motel and all her belongings were removed from the the building when the flames !Sff smoke rose above Main Street Fnday evening , i 're brke out in the Fern's Cafe bu.ld.ng Vol ' flIemen labored to save the old building. Eighteen threatened ' to take har apartment. One room in the motel also suffered some water damage; the roof over this room was chopped through to prevent any flames from burning the other rentals. Mr. Tangren said that he thought that some meat he had been frying on a hot plate in the unused cafe portion of the building burned and started the fire. Tangren put the meat to cook and then went to pick up a ranch hand working on his farm in Spanish Valley and was gone about two hours. When he returned, the eafe and tavern were on fire. The old cafe was erected in about 1933 or 1934 and was owned by Clay Davis who ran a small cafe and service station there. Lucien Tangren Tan-gren bought the establishment establish-ment in 1941 and added che bar and enlarged the cafe by adding a dining room. When Mr. Tangren's insurance became be-came due a couple of months ago, the insurance company refused to insure him because of the age of the building, he stated. Mr. Tangren, in addition to losing his business and old cafe lost a valuable collection collec-tion of antique guns, several old clocks, and many antique anti-que pictures he had on display dis-play in the building. His son Karl Tangren, reported that the elder Mr. Tangren had been able to salvage none of these properties. '-' ! T . . ; - 0;'J Ts , - a Jfjd&J A r I ' ,vl - y Jit- ... mf'fT 'Y ....... "..'. - -' units' of the nearby Bowen Motel were threatened. Ksi-dents Ksi-dents helped move the furniture from the rooms and firemen fire-men turned the spray onto the roof to save the motel. |