Show ONE MILL 1011 GODS UP IN SMOKE 8 M 0 A holocaust caused ClItIs ed bya by a itell 13 cigar ciar etta ST JOSEPH JOSEP 11 mo sopt 25 fire started in in town send As AVy wyatts atts dry aoda bjoro this morn aug it bonsu m md d tile five story building of tho iho ronier konier 0 crocka y coin in pany the aho commercial batik bank and ando ther Lher small buildings the loss is over a million there is ia an unconfirmed report that throe firemen firem au wore were killed among tho the buildings build migi destroy od vero ransome Ran somo garrett brewstor brewster hoea shoos B F barnaby baru aby co drugs js 3 S allen abon aco co whole colo groceries and th thi i daily luil building ding the rumor that javo were killed hy by walls walla is denied 1 by b y the police A number were mare or less seriously hurt over a hindered hun dered wore were at work AO in townsend wants Vs building when the flames were discovered escapes wore cut off but all were rescued by ube the firo fire department depart monA it is believed now that tho the ore is under control the cause of the X fire avia the stub of fit a lighted cigarette thrown care haessly on tho the floor in the store room on tho the fifth floor of ule the big department of townsend emery the fire department could have put tho iho fire out bu but t for the failure of the waterworks water works pumps to give pressure sufficient to force the water to required red leight the flames had got beyond the point where the chemical apparatus might shave have been of uso when the fifth floor was reached it became apparent tho building was doomed and the then directed their efforts to an attempt to confine the fire to the building handicapped by dent water supply they were unsuccessful cess ful tho the townsend wyatt build tin became a roaring furnace fur naco the leaping feet into tile the air eoon coon attack attacked od the commercial bank building almost simultaneously the flames jumped across the street 10 0 o the barbay carbay and franco france blocks then it was apparently the iho whole block was doomed and the foar fear became ge general meral that entire part of if the city would be swept away the roofs of the carbey and france were ware burned when the water began to conie come the department stopped pro gross of the flames north at t the german American bank south in the carboy bloc kalid west at the ouila ing ang oc occupied aupied by hansom garrett and brewster Brow ster who wholesale losalo shoo dealers from the wyatt townsend emery building the flames deapen to tile the building occupied by rangers shoup crockery dealer it qui quickly akly succumbed then followed that thai of S A allen alien co wholesale grocers and in quick tho the hogeland hot hotel eland and small buildings occupied by small tradesmen wore were consumed it was 3 before tho fire was under zinder control and the conflagration had boon been under way six hours at 6 oo clock lock the firo 1 is 4 still baill burning fier fiercely coly ill in spot B thy the buru burned ad district is bounded bound 1 I by felix ond and edbom and sixth and S streets and tho the aduth huu half of tile block between edmond tind and S st 4 charlos aud and sixth and So seventh salt lake lahe herald |