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Show MANY HOMELESS III BINGHAM FIRE Upper Section of Town Is Damaged; $100,000 Done by Fire Many Flee in Night Attire as Flames Spread Rapidly; Four Hotels, Rooming House Destroyed; Emergency Call Brings S. L. County Fire Equipment Salt Lake Three hundred and fifty persons were rendered homeless and damage of approximately $100,000 done in a spectatcular fire which swept through a section of upper Bingham Bing-ham early Friday morning. Through the combined efforts of the Salt Lake City, county, Bingham volunteer vol-unteer fire departments and the Utah Copper company emrgency equipment equip-ment and the sourageous conduct of the volunteer firemen, entire Upper Bingham was saved from destruction. Two frame hotels and one rooming house were burned to the ground and two brick hotels were completely gutted. gut-ted. The blaze originated in the rear of the Nick Pinos grocery store at 4:20 o'clock and ate its way rapidly in both directions. Albert Newman, drug clerk in the Diamond bar, noticed the flames shooting from the grocery store and sounded the alarm. So rapidly did the fire spread that occupants of rooming houses and small canyon homes had no time to obtain ob-tain their belongings. Many fled in their night clothing, only a few stopping stop-ping long enough to grab a wrap to protect them from the chilly morning air. Five minutes after the alarm was turned in the volunteer .equipment No. 1 and No. 2 arrived on the scene, but even then the fire was shooting from the Venice hotel on the right of the Pinos grocery. The flames shot high in the air and leaped across the narrow nar-row street and ignited the Copper and Bingham hotels. Faced with the task of fighting the blaze on both sides of the narrow, tortuous tor-tuous avenue, , Acting Chief William Harris put in an emergency call for the Salt Lake county volunteer department. depart-ment. Before the county equipment after a record run of twenty-five minutes min-utes from Murray, arrived, the Bingham Bing-ham volunteers had successfully checked the blaze on the west side of the street. The new concrete exchange building of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company proved the obstacle ob-stacle that prevented the spread of the names down the canyon. The buildings, the belongings, the proprietor and the estimated damage follow: Copper hotel, P. H. Pitchos, $8,000. Bingham hotel, Andrew Gramalakis, $S,000. Modern hotel, G. S. Underhill, $25,-000. $25,-000. Venice hotel, Mrs. M. J. Contratto, $15,000. Pinos grocery and rooming house, Nick Pinns, $10,000. Henry Wise building and rooming house, $15,000. Henry Wise home, $4000. Greek coffee house and pool hall, Mike Machkrik's, $9000. Chinese restaurant, $-1000. The fire is believed to have been caused by an overheated coal stove. . . |