Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-07-11 | Page 3 | Mysterious Fire at Provo City

MYSTERIOUS FIRE AT PROVO GITY Residence of L. L Sigler Found Burning in Four Rooms SUSPECTED Damage ins os Trilling Resulting Ii lii In InI Deduction I of ofa if a I Pet Few Hugs g Drapery nini Cu Curtains Provo Jul July 10 At At an early hour hou this morning the lie fire department was c called out dut to SIxt North an and Third East to extinguish a a- lire Jhc at the time resl resl- deuce occupied by hy L. L SIgler a n travelIng traveling travel travel- ing log Jesman The rhe house was full Cull o of oC smoke but there was little damage 1 done 0 one The fire lire was burning in iii four tour different differ differ- eat ent rooms but It seems that there was no conn connection the tile blazes A Af Afew f few W rugs and auth curtains were burned an and the whole affair had hall such sucha a V very vei-j- l peculiar arrangement that lint the lie officers set fet to work worl at once on tho the belief that the act was one ono of arson The Ilie alarm came In iii over Ovet the Tn Independent Inde c- c pend pendent nt phone from Olsons Olson's residence which Is half hair a S block west of the lire 1110 Mr Mu SIgler sent the time word and used his neighbors neighbor's phone for the reason that 11 he ie could not get Into the lie room where here his hiis phone wa was because e of time the smoke which thick had filled the hue house Ho Ito is of the he opinion that lire was wa set by some someone someone one OC who vho thought that he hue was ivas away awn from home IJu but I at nt a loss to know hu vii It U would be he Another theory is that burglars were tere at it v work ork and that for tor sonic some reason thc they carelessly or em In lit their thell excitement got Jot their heir light too near the curtains which started the lie fire lire To ru support lii theory Is S the lie tact fact that Mr 11 SIgler Is short a pocket book hooli and ond 35 Ou The women folks folliS as soon oon as ns the time ire fire was discovered isco er began hegan to carr carry things lungs out of or the hou house houte e an and amid as the they hey not stan stand tIme the smoke In the lie rooms where whole the time flee fire was as they con con- lined limed their theil work to the wardrobes nn and clothes bElies clos closets s. s