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Show FLAMES CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE AT PANGOITCH Mercantile Store, Two Restaurants, Opera House, Etcctra, Consumed Con-sumed by Fire. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $125,000 to $150,000 Lack of Water Renders Fire Fighters Fight-ers Powerless Before Spreading of Flames. $14,000 in Liberty Bonds Reported Consumed. (Deserot Ijjvening News.) Pnnguitch, Utah, Jan. 3 Fire which broke out at 11 o'clock last night, and is still burning, though under control, caused damage estimated at $ 125,000 to $150,000. The fire is believed to havo started in the rear room of the Fanguitch Cooperative Co-operative Mercantile company, and before the firo department could piny any streams the entire building, consisting con-sisting of four rooms on the ground floor and one on the second story, wn3 a mnss of flames. The entire contents were consumed. Tho loss is ctimated nt from ?50,000 to $60,000 on "tho building and contents. It is also reported re-ported that Liberty bonds to tho amount of $14,000, which had been prepared for mailing, were also in the safe of the establishment. Man- 1 nger Sam Worthen of the Co-op would not verify this report today. Sparks from the roof of the mercantile mer-cantile establishment set fire to the Quince restaurant on one side and the Sargent restaurant on the other. The loss of the Intter was between $7,000 nnd $8,000 while it wns only $2,000 in the former, as J. O. Quince proprietor, was able to remove the most of tho furniture before the fire gained any great headway. Tho fire then jumped to the Pnnguitch Pnn-guitch Opera house, which hns recently re-cently been remodeled nnd mnde into nn up-to-date theatre. This building was an entire loss, tho loss amounting to about $40,000. The opera house, which is also the ward amusement hall, is GO per cent owned by the local ward. Although the entire town turned out to assist the local fire department, little could be accomplished because of tho lack of a sufficient supply of water to throw on the flames. |
