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Show UTAH LUMBER FIRE LOSS $200,000 Thousands Witness Blaze; Most Spectacular Spec-tacular In City In Recent Years Salt Lake City. Chester F. Hannah of Ogden is dead, ten other persons received minor injuries, and a loss estimated es-timated at $175,000 was suffered as the result of a fire of undetermined origin which destroyed the plant of the Utah Lumber company, West First South street, and one residence Wednesday Wed-nesday night and early Thursday morning. While 15,000 excited persons per-sons looked on from every point of vantage, the conflagration which began be-gan shortly before 8 o'clock, swept the extensive yards of the lumber company, consumed the two buildings which house most of its lumber and its horses, and left only the blackened walls of the brick structures, charred remains of hundreds of board feet of lumber, and water channels of considerable con-siderable depts as must evidences of the devastation. The blaze was one of the most spectacular witnessed in the city in recent years. ,As the flames leaped higher into the air, fanned by a breeze from the northeast, the excitement became so intense that Hanna, an 18-year-old lad from Ogden, fell dead on the street. He was immediately rushed to the emergency hospital, and death was pronounced as due to heart disease. The police automobiles, as improvised ambulances, made several trips to the emergency hospital thereafter, and in each instance the fire had taken an injured victim. Three firemen and seven volunteers were injured in fighting the raging flames, but none seriously. |