| Show THE EMPIRE EXPIRE MILL eill BURNED ANOTHER aone GONE the fire in the empire floering flouring Flou ring mill in city creek canyon which commenced at three adock yesterday afternoon resulted in the total destruction of the building and a almost the bame pame of the contents the mill bad been stopped about an hour when flames were observed by samuel sudbury son of the mil I 1 len ien feri terp coning coming through the upper part of the north end of the building 9 he at once gave the alarm and mr 8 J end and others who were at the house adjacent rushed into the mill while samuel mounted a horbe and galloped to the city hall to rye gye the alarm mr sudbury and his two daughters worked with great energy getting water and sudAh and throwing rowing it upon the flames the smoke became so dense and the heat so GO intense that miss julia plead with her father to come out as his life was vas in danger and she herself was go ifo overcome that she bhe nearly became unconscious mr hir B S continued to fight the nire fire and save the pro verty perty until he had to retreat or be suffocated other judicious things that mr sudbury did in the early F tage stage of the fire wail wah to break the race fiume flume at its junction with the mill and let the water rush into the building this movement would have had hai a powerful effect in checking the fire had not mot the flames reached the wheat bing bins ettine the grait grafi down and thus choking off the stream the nire fire brigade arrived and went toworu to work on the fismer but all efforts 0 to o P eave ave the building were unavailing as the fire had bad obtained a firm hold on the mill by the time they got a stream on the burning mass there being a stiff con conyon yon YOU breeze at the time ilme pieces of charcoal were carried through the air and scattered over the ground for a distance of three fourths of a mile the damage to the building and machinery amounts to in the neigh boyhood of the amount of wheat on storage and which is almost elmost a tota total labb lobb is estimated to have been worth there was also abut about pounds of flour a quantity of tools and other arcides ar articles tides making a loss in all to the church 3 of about on which there ther e was no insurance mr sudbury ia at a loss hofto how to aco aeo nut for the origin of the fire tire unless it was incendiary it evidently commenced in the smut room and ascended from it ib up the air flume to the main building he says the theory of spontaneous combustion la Is out of the question as there were no do conditions liable to produce it the only clue with which he can possibly connect any incendiary action is the fact that A considerable time since he discovered a runaway prisoner in the canyon notified the authorities of the fact and the fei fel low vp wab was as captured this prisoner a colored man maus stated at the time that he would yet get got even with mr and the latter baw saw a man pass the wil wll whom be took to be him only a few days ago he feels very keenly the destruction st of the mill which he has had charge of for the last seventeen year having entered it about two or three years after its erection he certainly would not feel the mirafor une more intensely if it were hla hib own personal property in the evening after the fire droops of boys hoys were wading in the dItche ditcher Fl scooping out wheat carried gown stream by the current numbers of them succeeding in getting considerable quantities |
