Show ANOTHER LARGE FIRE first national rational kat ronal ional bank nua nud two other buildings destroyed it is only paly two weeks ago last friday I 1 night might since nine uhle buildings and j a large quantity of property I 1 cestr destroyed oyed by f fire ire lre in this ciry city and now we are visited by another conflagration still more destructive so far as the value is concerned 1 about half past four this i morning fire was discovered in the upper story of that splendid building the finst first national bank erected by mr air W hussey at a cost of 14 00 the iia ila mes first discovered red to have caught inside the mansard iian klau sard roon roof from the northeast north east side of which dense columns of smoke issued several parties rushed to the upper part of the building to do something towards I 1 the extinguishment of the flames but they had bad gained too much head way to succumb to that j kind of effort the fire alarms were rung at the city hall and wasatch engine eugine engine eugine house and the members of the fire brigade with their apparatus were on the s spot ot as speedily as possible ei and the they y worked manfully and energetically ergeti cally to subdue and dud stop the progress of the fire tile the heavy hard timbers of the beautiful bank structure burned somewhat slowly but at times the huge flames shot high X into the air sent senit forth volumes volu u of or smoke and filled the air with vivid spark sparks the result of the nire fire so far as this fine building is concerned is that it is almost most totally destroyed leaving but little save the walls standing and the ornamental iron front the north wall remains intact but the upper portion odthe of the south one fell outward this thib morning and went crashing through the rhe building immediately south of or it occupied by seigel bros dealers in ready made cloth cioth clothing lutr by this crash this building was vms literally demolished excepting a small smail portion in front and the great bulk buik of the stock and fixture buried in the tile debris besides being damaged by water the building two stories high which was occupied by seigel bros was the property of W C staines john needham and mrs whitmore the two story building north of the bank occupied by watte walters Brot brother broiher heri herl jewelers jew elere caught fire and was also destroyed this building belongs to mr john Hepwor hepworth tb here the fire stopped but in the tile large bank building it has amoul dered most of the day and tile the firemen have been engaged in corm corn plating its extinguish extinguishment men t by playing upon ita it a stream of water from ddom the steam fire engine hose and also part of the day from the hose of the wasatch engine the deseret national bank co who were doing business on the first floor of the bank building got away with scarcely any loss losa parties interested in the bank batik were on the ground soon after the commencement men cement oc ol the fire and carried the tile specie ald aud paper out in bucket ets and when the cash account was wag footed up it came oat out clear the stationery and some papers of the company are in the vaults and hup supposed posed to be safe the company with their usual ente enterprise r ri so and and dispatch opened for miness business at half past ten this morning in the office of Z C emi ari arr I 1 col cola J H is ii patrick had a suite ot rooms in the tile building and probably saved most of his furniture which was also the good fortune of the tilo Flag elar flagstadt mining co whose oni cewis on oil the same floor theoffice the tha office furniture lind and books of attorneys hoge hogo and jonassen on the same samo floors floor were also mostly saved tile the bank building as before stated was erected at a cost of was the tile property of walker M brother and was insured for the los jos jo ios s of ITe rie itemus mrs staines and needham Nee dhain and mrs whitmore rp by whom we bre are specially desired to return for them grateful thanks to all in attempts to save the property properly is about 5 no insurance su rance the loss of seisel seigel brothers may probably reach covered by insurance watters brother probably lose about to insured B mr r john he hepworth epworth loses lose s about no insurance the los losi of jon jun nasson Flitz stauf staff co and mr pat patriek patrick lek iek lck would probably amount in the aggregate to not more than th the tho 6 above figures are not assumed to be sar EAK laly isly IAly correct an exact eidet estimate being as yet impossible but they tiley are based on the best sources of information at our mermand mc omand they take the total property destroyed up to a sum a little rising of the third floor of the tho bank baak building ing was used as a dancing avancing hall be being known as hug Hua seyd the upper or fourth floor which 19 18 is 19 smaller was used for a similar purpose sei sey and we are informed th that at there was dancing an in tho tha latter part last night there appears to be no definite clue clup to the origin of 1 i tile tiie fine fire fir e it ilc has been surmised that it originated in a defective detective flue but lut a gentleman in the building line who noticed the structure when it was I 1 being erected ay a that that is next nea to an impossibility the albes being af pf of double brick and plastered ni ju tile interior and the whole build building 1119 being constructed as well and securely as any in the city I 1 it appears alsa also that walker brothers had bad taken due pre precautions eau cau against the contingency of or fore fire having had several men at work in the building for the past two weeks with a view to rendering it safe in that particular and other matters I 1 |