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Show II , iaia tne leader: 1 a tin n Fire! Fire! Was Bad News About Tabernacle, 1896 Continued from preceding page) berating cry. In that split second between the first unbelievable alarm and the actual sense of danger, John Baird and Lars Mortensen dashed out on a run to the fire department, and the small congregation of 200 who had assembled early to the regular Sunday afternoon meeting in the tabernacle, filed out with bewildered expressions on their faces. They could hardly believe it and yet they knew that Church was REALLY OUT. . It was due entirely to the small audience that there was no greater panic no lives lost. The building was evacuated quickly with but one Incident a woman fainted and had to be carried out into the open. Most of the men stampeded down the basement stairs to help fight the fire. There, directly beneath the pulpit in the east end of the building, the timbers were ablaze. In an instant a portion of the main floor heaved up and flames settled around it. The men stag aarni i v ?jC gered out knowing they could not go into the building even to save the silver sacrament service that had filled them with so much pride. By. the time the firemen arrived, the tabernacle fire was making headway fast. The of BUGLAR BRIGHAM CITY February 15, 1896 has this to say about the event: In less than an hour from when the fire was discovered, the main building was a mass of furious, flames, crackling and the fire had eaten its way through the roof and leaped upward into the inflammable tower. At 2:30 there was little left of the noble structure excepting the bare walls, now blackened, cracked and stripped of every square foot of wood; even the plaster was completely skinned off. chairs, benches, Excepting etc., rescued from the vestry in the rear, nothing was saved. To help matters along, a brisk February wind was blowing from the south. Burning cinders and debris blew for blocks across the city, and caused smaller fires. It was Brighams most spectacular conflagration, and was witnessed by a record crowd of 3,000 people. Brigham Citys splendid tabernacle is no more, the editor of the Buglar wrote, and it was almost as if he had said: The ti Box Elder Farm Production Progressive Methods Boost -- . g hand labor Already in operation, and heralding the day when arduous beet are machines such Box of Elders crop, sugar for the production unnecessary machine at right digs and tops sugar bee these pictured above. The tractor-drawmachine at left goes along the windrow, picks up t the and in windrows, piling them beets and loads then) into a truck. Then they are hauled to the beet dump, where lb are loaded on railroad 'cars, or to the Garland sugar factory itself, for processing it sugar. Beets and sugar provide Box Elder both with a leading cash crop and a lead! industry. All of the beets raised in Box Elder county are processed into sugar and Su? ged, ready for shipment and retail sale, in the Garland factory of the company. in the construction of a new ly changed. The pulpit Constitution of the United States has been taken from us. It building. But one thing we lost choir had executed an at was believed that one was as irreparably. The building was face and were now in the replaced: the sacrament service end of the building. At p enduring as the other. When the smoke had cleared was purchased by the wards turn, ' wherever one stood away and the ashes lay cold but the beautiful, full toned look, from the four stairw and ugly across the charred re- $800 pipe organ and $300 worth the folding doors to the choir with its seventy mains, a group of men deter- of music has been lost to us mined that the pilasters and forever. seats, the gallery with its walls were not Injured. It was It was the first day of spring, ing floors, the onyx washb estimated that if the walls were March 21, 1897. It was also one in the vestibule, ones pride not torn down, $12,000' would year later. From a towering quickened; it was an ambit: restore the building. Very soon heighth, old walls that had been attempt, defying competitioi The tried by fire, looked down with thereafter. Stake President Brigham Bugler bu Clawson issued a notice a benediction upon a congregaIt is a strictly that mutton, beef and wheat tion of 1,600 people. The Box ing, with a seating capacity will be taken as donations to Elder stake tabernacle was to about 1,400 people and sta the tabernacle,, at the market be dedicated as a "house of ing room for probably 200 m All the seats in the house price. worship unto the Lord. Work was well on its way toThe new structure was a be good seats as the pulpi chaste and dignified specimen so in harmony with the audi ward construction. 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