Show Bill Diu HOUSE DESTROYED lOSS ESTIMATED AT Flames Frames Sweep Over Entire Plant of Van Storage Company Burning Horses Grain Coursing Hounds an and d Furniture O BLAMES WORK OF FIRE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENTS S r Allowed Fire to Spread to Fireproof Warehouse Filled With Valuable Goods While Trying to Smother 5 er Fire in Hay A tire Ore which entailed a loss Joss of or approximately cost the lives hIves of ot 40 horses and anti five thre valuable greyhounds seriously Injured Captain William r T. Ayland of or fire company No I 1 and raged until one of f Salt Lakes Lake's large establishments was a n. mass of ruins started Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- nes night a about out 11 ii o'clock- o'clock The Redman Van Vall Storage company's plant in the block bounded hounded by First and Second SOI South th and Second and Third West Vest streets Is In ashes The fire 1110 was pf Qt f unknown origin and and- the buildings an and contents were doomed long before the fire department could could- answer the alarm S B B. B F F. Redman owner of or the ce company pan gave the following estimates of oc the loss Vans Vane and harness i horses accounts rendered In- In collectible by bj- the tire fire 15 goods In storage saddle horse horsa Paul 1000 main warehouse sheds 1000 brick stable hay and grain rain 1500 I In n the storehouse proper were goods stored by people In Salt Lake and In nil all parts o the wo world l While White th the goods were vore stored at the the- risk of tho It ItI Itla itis I la is known that In many s they were ere Insured As time the fire occurred d law lain at night and the agencies were closed It wha wms impossible to obtain anything like Uk an aim accurate r te list of ot the Individual losses Windsor sor and company carried 01 worth 10 Insurance on some somo of tho the tora tor- tor a age e contents content This was waa distributed between be be- tween tho time German and ond Mien mania of or I and nud the Gerard and Spring I Garden of Philadelphia The stor- stor oge building was owned by the Keyser Investment company Fine Animals r Perish Although h f ho lie fire t toss loss tt itself cU was appalling appalling ap 11 ap- ap palling the Interest ot 01 f the people ople centered con cen 1 In the tho fact filet that 40 4 horses nil o ot of them line Sine animals wore were benc beneath th th the tho blazing As tho flames tames darted bock back and forth during duning the early progress o or of orthe the lire nrc the quaking limbs for f th the horse horses bo be neon and anti the tho smothered red groans groan made matin the the- SI cl tors tors tl e Th The lo lou louS S Jot or ot aull tho the ii ho o ot or JI U r Red Rod RedS S mac was wasi felt lt L by uy tji U S nh m n 5 11 i gr vcr lh t wen t rt r. r li J s' s A tto ff l lt l C jui t late lato coursing at tit tho thu Utah n a S tali 1 4 TJ C n t. Ilin-t. ut On One o of tho the most dramatic scenes of or th the fire was the that befell befall Cap Captain Captan tali William T. T Ayland Aland of or comp company n No o. o 1 L 1 Ho lie was tJ fighting the fire at t tho northend northend north end of the tIme burning stable Suddenly nh the walls gave way and fell feU Into Burton Burlon court Before he could gt KOT ger away nc no wi w. struck on ott the tho head by falling bricks and bruised up generally Ho lie attempted to arise but sank back bacle helpless As he was covered with blood about tho the head hend the bystanders thought ho he was fatally wounded Tho The orl origin ln of the fire lire is u a mystery Tho The night watchman James Kinney wh who lives lI at No 4 J Burton Durlon court and directly across from the site of the storage com coat pany W was 18 at al his nl night ht lunch A man and a 3 woman returning from a n. theater yaw saw a blaze and ami ran to KInneys Kinney's house He lie r ran n at once to a Il telephone and the time department responded quickly Imi o Je to Sine Horses When the tho department arrived the tile fire 1110 vas was confined to the stable to the north of the tru In stora storage c plant In the meantime meantime mean- mean time line Mr Ir Kinney y had opened the doors with the Intention of getting out tile Ule I horses The lire however had worked into nto some 40 tons of hay and tho the In- In tenor of tho stable was a seething furnace furnace fur fur- nace It meant death Itself to attempt to o save the time horses Old Dick was tile trie only horse which managed to get set out of ot he the barn Th other horses re reduced reduced reduced re- re to lO charr charred chaired d masses before time the eyes ees of the helpless multitude Slow Slowly but surely tho time lire worked to the he south and finally caught the main warehouse It ate ale Its wD way as If through paper and In face faco o of the streams of water until soon tho the entire plant sank sonk sanko to o n a ma mass s of ashes find and twisted d ruins Lie Il Wire lre Scare At tho the north end of or the building Is a cable able containing the time wires of the independent inde pendent Telephone company This l ca carte ca- ca l- l blo rte burned In two and nail the time people fell back like mad the impression being that hat tho the wires were live lh At time the south end of or the buildings are tho the wires of or time the Utah Light and Railway compan com com- pan pany As tho time lire fire neared these wires vires the he crowd crow crowd again shuddered Patrolmen Patrol- Patrol men cased eased tho minds of tho the people b by explaining that the electric current had been c n shut almut oft off Rumors Humors of all kinds wore were circulated circulated- One man stated that the basement of oC the he building contained kegs of pow pow- tier del er Tho The crow crowd l immediately fell back Newcomers Newcomer took the time places made Vacant vaunt va va- cant cant and some somo one olt oho also o announced the contained great quantities of oC oil II The file police pollee bus busy keeping back the ho crowds and between the powder amid nd oil the they found a weapon moro more ef- ef e than their thel clubs The Thc fire was tho time largest seen In Salt T Lake ake a In many years and th there here re was a bl big crowd Women omen stood In tho the places o of vantage Men Ten hm and boys bos filled all the places pos pos- sl sible lc They rhoY crow crowded ell up p toward tottering tot- tot walls waHl and It was with difficulty ho tho police kept thorn thom out of ot the time danger zone one Cartridges Cartridge Are rl I When tho time blaze was at itt Us Its height in inho tho ho main storage e plant the cracking or f cartridges could be heard above e time the hum um of ot the tho engines tho limo splashing of and the crackling of tho the tire lire Some Seine ome o of the bullets toll full uncomfortably close lose to the bystanders The rho cartridges cartridge packed in the tho house household hold effects of some ome of the patrons patron of the time warehouse The Tho most heart broken man at the time there fire Oro re was B. B F. F Redman Hedman While the monetary montary mon mon- chary tary loss lolls was waa great g and anti added adde to his disturbed condition of or mind th the thi loss of oC he time horses and dogs preyed pled most upon him Im Paul his Imis famous saddle horse was vas a favorite Tears came Into the eyo yea eyes of Mr 11 Redman and his voice trembled trem- trem bled bleil led as ho tried to tell teH of or his monetary losses and the probable 10 losses 8 to his patrons Firemen Inexperienced Although the lire fire was a n brilliant one from rom any sort of or a standpoint there thereas was as one thing timing that showed out more brilliant than time the lire Oro Itself It was wase time the e brilliant failure of the tho lire 1110 depart depart- men mont 1 There were many Inexperienced men handling handling- the tho lines hirtes of or hose Their Inexperience counted too for fol It was WIlS a n amo timo mo for action of veterans and not for tor tho 10 drilling of recruits It can cnn be he said for the recruits that It t was not their fault Mall Many I In time the large argo crowd re that many within the last year time tho council has been asked to raise the tho salaries d oi the i lire re fighters fighters- This being denied approximately ap- ap J ap-J proximately 30 of th the s veteran firemen have left the employ of time the city In the stable in which the tho fire mated were tons and tons of hay it was apparent to any observer that it was useless to try and save the stable Streams were kept playing on the burn burn- lag ing hay long after they should have havo been playing on tho tue waiTs waifs of the tho main warehouse If the firemen had given the proper attention to the tho north end of ware ot-he-ware- tho waro- waro house at tho be of the lire It It Is the warehouse could have been saved was was was-a a statement made mado by br Mr S S S Minor nor L Losses S SOn On Second West street R. R T. T Burton W. W S. S Burton L. L G. G Burton Mrs Susan Burton H H. Burton Burton- and the Salt Lake hott lost outbuildings outbuilding and fences James Mollerup who lives on out Second South loat a fence by people eople climbing on it Dr Wilcox on First i South and David 1 also lost fences and outhouses out houses S On time the trade track next the south end of t I Ithe the tho warehouse Were somo rome cars at lime hor ot of th TU These Bo ro- ro f 01 damage far a al l Known Captain at- at 4 t os r vi a. a sustained n a severe scalp wound on arm th theS the the- f anU tack back S ot of the tho nead was bruised all over Dr Benedict thought late la last t night that the Injuries would not prove to be serious t The tIre fire was under control at Streams of water will probably ably bo playing on time the smoldering smoldering- ruAis until noon Thursday The Tho work of clearing the debris will be tedious Time The worst part of time the latter work will bethe bo be bothe the gathering gathering- up of the charred re remains remains re- re mains of tho cremated horses and dog dogs I Furniture Burned I The building building- was originally built for fort fora t n a storehouse by A. A Keyser Investment company and cost over The three floors were packed with furniture belonging belonging- In some somo Instances to Salt Lakes Lake's most well well-to-do citizens J. J W W. Houston had all his furniture stored there thero The Utah Light and Power company had six safes Jn In storage Nat yesterday broke up his hie house and stored with Redman fledman 1000 worth of his furniture Tho Timo was not transferred and his Imis loss will willbe willbe be complete Calvin Wood had furni- furni Lure turo In storage to the extent of Pe Incendiary Although no one knew how the lire fire started time the account related by two boys boya would show that It might have been done by an Incendiary Bert Mills who lives at West Third South street and Glen Sinclair of KS West Third South street were returning front from a theater They were running each other In the tho street when the lire fire lit up the tho sky They razz ran to time the fire Ono One of them attempted to togo togo go Into time the building with the Intention ho related of helping get out some somo of the horses Time The boys represent that a man ran up tip behind them and told them with an oath to get way away Asked to describe the tho man manthe manthe the boys said the they were taken so by surprise sur sur- prim prise that they doubt mat they would bo be able to recognize their assailant |