Show I DAMAGING FIRE FIE IN SMALL THEATER a- a L' L Spectators Warned in Time to tc Leave Before Films I. I i Exploded ki j LEAVE HOUSE HOUS ORDERLY t t 2 Byron Park Paik Noticed Smoke f t f But Could Not Find It It- It 10 r 1 L First Performance t t I Fire In tho the Electric theater 34 f South State Stale street for Cor a time lime threat i f ened to destroy the show house bouse anc and frightened spectators who had just fak taken n their seats for the show last night l The fire occurred occulTed at nt about 7 80 EO o'clock but warning was given In III time lime for the tho spectators to make good ii i th lr escape before the tho flames spread into the auditorium the tho m machine machine ma ma- v 1 Byron Park was operating chine and nn barely escaped from the littie III- III tic tie box over the doors of or the tho theater when the tho celluloid film exploded How i tho the fire lire started is not known Park Parl says Bays he detected an ardor of burning wood but could not locate It It wa was Just after atter he had started showing th the p pl pictures turcs of how a a. to l shot won won a aa at a horse lOrse race 1 Leave e Theater Orderly He stopped the show and notified the on the main floor The spectators spectators spec spec- tors t were told that t something was wrong with the tho machine and were advised advised ad ad- isell to leave at once Th They y hastened rom om the house but there was no panic Soon after atter the last were out the film p blew up and the tire fire roared Tho The department was soon on the It scene and after some little difficulty r extinguished the flames Much wood J was found in tho the suppose supposedly ly proof fireproof operating room The Electric theater was purchased 1 yesterday from tram D. D it M. M Sherwood of or Park City by Charles Nichols and the performance pert per- per t was the tho first one under the new management Only one roll of at films was destro destroyed ed The loss Is estimated estl- estl mated at 00 f Byron Park the operator is considered considered considered con con- one of tho the best machine men In Salt Lake Jake His brother l tester Lester ter Park Parle was badly burned In a a. similar explosion sion s- s ion in Max Florences Florence's electric theater theoter on Main street last year George E. E Russell was on tho door and it was through his quiet manner that tho the spectators were reassured and dl did not cause a k panic in making their exit from the little play house |