| Show a OGDEN IS SWEPT SEPT BY FIRE I lOSS IS MORE THAN 75 Business Houses on Washington Avenue in Heart of Business Business Busi Busi- i g t ness District Suffer in Worst Fire City Has Hasi t Ever Know Known i L WELL ELL UNDER m BEFORE IT WAS VAS AS DISCOVERED Buildings of Implement Company George A A. A Lowe o co riY i ny Burrup's Grocery and Others Burn I Exploding Ammu Ammunition Adds to Confusion cm Republican Special Service 1 Ogden May 21 The The most trous I trous lire fire In the history of Ogden started this morning soon after aCter 1 1230 30 o'clock In tho ut at the thc rear of or ortho tho Burton Implement company's bull building on wi Washington 1 avenue I beI between be be- c- c tween Twenty third and ana I Twenty Twenty- fourth streets nn and before It was vaa under un un- un- un tier der control property properly aggregating more mor than In Jn value had been do tie- by tho the flames The magnificent George e A A. A Lowe building recently built the Burton Implement company's s building and anti tho the smaller buildings occupied b by Burrup's rup's grocery W. W Farr Fan Co Fred second-hand second stoic store and F F. Stran Strange's es e's hand second store storo had been beon burned anti and nothing but bit a heap of I marks what was once a V. V M. M k V IL V of f tha- tha Grgo Vgo At i iLowe Lowe building whose attention was attracted by the glare of the lire fire The flames had made good headway by tie the lime tinie the fire depart depart- arrived and fanned by iy a strong breeze front from the northeast was sweepIng sweeping sweep sweep- ing toward the big George A. A Lowe I building and the mammoth of W. W II 11 Wright Sons company across the street streeL The firemen fire men attempted to extinguish the lire paging In the Burton Implement company's corn com pany's building but without avail About o'clock the flames communicated corn com to the window sill of the George A. A Lowe building and In lit a ii afew few minutes minutes' time the interior of that Splendid structure was blazing fierce fierce- ly Wagons buggies and other highly high high- Jv ly materials were lick lick- l ui b by bi the thc flames When the tho fire iro i reached cached the south where millions of or cartridges c. were st stored thc they C exploded giving the excited cx- cx Cli cited 11 spectators an au Idea of the soun sound of 04 battle Contrary Contral to the generally a Pt belief beller cartridges in exploding In ing in IlL that manner do not nol tren send out ulf their ir leaden Ic en ml of of death but detonation Tho The cx- cx l burst I l with Ith n a loud pl of oC this great quantity o of cart cart- did ill much toward ca' ca causing portions of or the thc wall vaIl to tu topple over and hindered tho the firemen In their work wOrl For o a time the lire department appeared ap ap- ap- ap and und with u It strong wind helpless ICar 1 in direction bl blowing Jn a spreading to rapidly iho tho l names ne wore A A. Lowe annex About Aboul G George lEe over however the thc wind o o'clock t direction an and i opposite ch changed to lo the th this probably saved ro ed the I. I L. L lark anti and Flit National bunk buildings as well remainder of oC the Iho block between as the Iho fourth Twenty and third Twenty nt n building burned like I f v a sired The i i- i so much paper and Hud the frame build build- street were rr V logs ings north of or of or twenty period a eaten oaten up within made o by l' the ma minutes Here lIere gap prevented the thc I tY fourth ty-fourth fourth Mi col alone to the thc building the lames flames of Dreading ln o i Machine Machine Machine Ma Ma- Wagon agon of Jr the Cons Consolidated chine com company puny After the uc Lowe Lowe building had hall burned the firemen were and ground un a to tu the approach the tho G three able to dl diverted from the of hose and L. L White top of ci the thc 1 IL I of ot that many morS mow mOl assistance with the thC 1 avenue the T S. S streams Ol on nn flames lr the northerly norU- norU At t clock o'clock ly Ir O 4 t S r l ii tho flames yore Vero completely un under m cont con con control t ol although the ruins were still burnIng burning burn burn- Ing briskly A sad incident of or the fire was W the buning of oC five valuable horses belongIng belonging belong belong- ing InS to the Burton Durlon Implement corn com pan pany Abu About ll 1 1245 o'clock Joseph fine a teamster employed by the company rushed from his hits lodging lodging- house to lo the stables at theY the rear rca of oC the implement building and cd ed to release tho the horses but the aumais anImals animals ani au- mals mais crazed lJ by the tho lire Ore rushed rushe headlong headlong head hen long long- Into the flames anti and perished with luu loud of pain ThIs Is the second big property lof hors loES s for or Pt the George A. A Lowe company compan during the month May Ia G C a fire destroyed de do- Its warehouse on Wall all aye aye- flue lue with an estimated loss Joss o of |
