Show seza STAKE tabernacle BURNED c h field utah oct 15 last night sevier avier e stake tabernacle Taber macle in this tw was completely destroyed by fire fire are started at alt and ait the re e building was a mass of burning b and tall ghastly burren barren walls loea diossi of the fire ta athe the people of retake is ia fully with not one att 10 of f insurance toe the cause of the olt flroa oagot noot be found out but the gener at is that some villain who bad some feeling against contractor J if had set the place on fire lake himself even for the past sup wheat in suit hesh te shOrt lort story of the disastrous con men am is about this at meteer was returning to his from sumer on his way he the tabernacle and when he he no bleed a spark fly from the t corner of the iffe he v legated the cause and found that ire hud had just br broken olten through the and but one gallon of water at the would have ext extinguished Anguished the thee butt building dins was so ao near biear com lio bo wever werver that all ail the inside and extrie haid bad been remo remove vedi df was at a t but b before fa ee be ooma be obtained of abw buildup wm waa NM W 12 INA 1 1 0 10 headway that the only thing left to do was to save what lumber there was 1 piled around the building and to protect as far as possible the adjoining buildings A wind was blowing from the southwest and burning shingles were blown for more than a mile and fully forty corrals and haystacks in the northeast corner of town were started burning but no serious losses are reported from the cause except from damage by the water the entire job of plastering would have been completed tonight in the building the building was wired throughout for electricity the I 1 carpenters had started to laying the flooring and in fact the building would have been turned over from the contractor in about 45 days it is now thought that the walls of the building will not mot be fit for use again while the original cost cosit of erecting them was the people of this stake have paid in casch for the last contract both bath amounts being a total loss the place where the fire started can only be reached by climbing to the top of the main tower and from there crawling over the ceiling it is thought that a slow combustible had been placed there the night before by someone who had some same feeling against the contractor there have been three men seriously injured on the building since it was started last may and there was considerable sid erable trouble in the building when it was first started eight years ago the bondsmen of contractor J H bowman of salt lake city are only held for and lit it is not known at this time whether or not they can be held for that amount the members of the church in in this stake have been kept poor all summer in order to meet their several payments and to have it all destroyed in not no t more two hours seems very discouraging to say the least it is not known what will be done in the matter of rebuilding there was no insurance c e whatever on the building and if no money can be recovered from the bondsmen of the contractor it is doubtful whether the building will be started again or not last wednesday there was an exceptionally tio nally large eagle flew into this city from the mountains east it soared around and found the building and finally lighted upon the topmost spire of the main tower it remained there and would not be molested despite the stone throwing by a large crowd had assembled at the beete ate of the strange freak an old woman of the town who claims to be a foreseer gave it out that thal the matter was ani an omen that the building would be dt ayed by fire inside of ehtee days the time of het prophesy sV would have expired yesterday a at about bout 8 when the building was a total wreck |