| Show SAlT lAKE CITY HAS COSTLY FIRE EARLY MORNING FIRE DESTROYS MAIN STREET BUSINESS BLOCK Firemen Battle In Zero Weather Against Fire That Threaten Threatens City Lots Loss I la II Estimated at t a I i iSalt Salt One Laker Lake One of the richest business justness blocks in Salt Lake was threatened with destruction cUon early Christmas morning when flames practically destroyed the El Hooper dridge building 39 to 57 South Main street The damage was estimated by Fire Chief William WJ Bywater at when he surveyed the ruins The loss is only partially covered by In tn The damage is estimated as fol follows follows fol- fol lows Western Barber Supply company to Hazelwood Candy andy company 15 to Edward E. E Jenkins to 40 E E. E L L. Sheets Martin Coal company op Co-op Furniture company 2500 Ashby Snow 1500 Keely Ice Cream company company- 1500 Trinket Jewelry Shop 2000 Music company Owners of the building were ere E. E L. L Sheets E. E E. E Jenkins W. W R R. Wallace John JohnF F. F Bennett Dennett and amI the Francis Armstrong Armstrong Arm Arm- strong estate The fire is one of the most serious in Spit Salt Lake in the past decade In Inmany Inmany Inmany many respects it resembled the Lafayette Lafayette La La- fayette school blaze on January 10 1922 when the State street building was destroyed in the early morning with a temperature hovering below the zero mark The The blaze was far tar harder to combat than the school fire which caused damage estimated at more than The cause causa of the conflagration will probably never be known Chief Bywater Bywater By By- w water ter said No clues dues are to be had from the blaze owing to the proportions proportions it had assumed before the arrival arrival ar at- rival of the department The alarm was turned in to the fire department at a a. a m. m The major portion of the destruction destruction destruction tion wrought by the flames fJames was centered cen cen- centered in the quarters occupied by the Hazelwood Candy company and the Western Barber Supply company 45 and 47 South Main street respective respective- ly Iy Both Doth establishments were devoured by the blaze the fire eating a path from the rear entrance of ot both stores to the front doors taking all in its course The Trinket Jew Jewelry shop 41 2 1 South Main street was one of the heaviest sufferers practically the entire en tire stock being destroyed either by flames or water The Op Co-Op Furniture company which maintained a salesroom over the stores at 39 41 and 43 South Main streets lost furniture in the blaze the exact value not being de The Beesley Music company with fifty pianos stored on the second and third floors of the building at 57 South Main street suffered the loss or damage to many of the ments |
