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Show HYRUM SCENE OF BIG FIRE Hyrum Opera House Burns Down. Loss Not Covered by Insurance $15,000. The Logan Fire DepaVicinent Saves Town From Flames. '"v At 2 o'clock Thursday morning gra was"1 seen to burst through the root of the o, story, opera house in Hy rnm. - Within five mlnutee too Are had appeared In a doxen placet on the root and flames were spoutlnj from" every window.' The Ore bad gained such headway that It was Impossible for anyone to enter the building after aft-er it was discovered . Tho commercial houses under the opera house proper lost all their records as well as 'all their fixtures and stock. The Hyrum Are fighters turned out' In record' time, but little could be done, the pressure from tho gravity1 water system not.being great enough' to do much good. It was only a few minutes until the flames had spread to the Studebaker Bros', building' on the- oast. A brisk wind was blowing and the entire business section of the town seemed doomed. " " Logan Fire Department Called - It was at this juncture that someone some-one remembered the new automobile Are engine of Logan and an alarm was turned In at once. Mayor Thatch er ordered tho machine out Immediately Immedi-ately and within eight minutes "after the call was turned In the Logan boys were in Hyrum connecting up their hose. Fifteen minutes later the Are was under control. The machine was In perfect order and threw its stream of water with such force 'that fenco posts were broken off and driven hatt across the block. ' Great Loss Sustained A great many of the men who were burnt out carried n& Insurance, making mak-ing the ntH loss rather high, James Unswprth was theiheavlest loser. His : stock of vBierchandts'e Invoiced at JHm'i laiither' VltkV'DOoka -snowing Hj.wdfch otaoeouaUt.wmt up In i3P ;Vaawdrta;parrtt4 n In-SMiMat In-SMiMat iSWgalePt yU .'Vuwlti'.'alftUk-aW Attrea, Jncludliaf aaw playei' pUae. H'carrd no iaiaraace-andtbli lets AnFlntoVe-t'hVusandsi Mr.'-Algaier ha a large family to suffer the loss Iwithfhtm-.'' The opera house building -Was owned by Soren Hansen and J. R. Jensen. It was 102 feet long, 42 'feet wide, and two stories high. A conservative valuation would be $5000. It was Insured for 3000. The Carstensen hnd'Ansen company lost one player piano and ono organ, They had two now pianos at tho station which, by a fortunate oversight on tho port of the drayman, were not brought up the night before. Tho building occupied oc-cupied by Studeb&kor Bros.'wn's completely com-pletely destroyed. It belonged to Jos-Wntklns Jos-Wntklns of Mendon and carried no Insurance. In-surance. Tho coal sheds, storage rooms, lco house, etc., at tho rear of the opera houso were burned to tho ground. This morning a great mound of lco marks tho spot whoro the lco houso stood. A groat deal of damage was done to electric light and telo-phone telo-phone polos and wires. Many Buildings Saved Tho new residence and electric flour mill owned byll. P."Nlolsen, which can led no Insurance, was saved by tho superhuman efforts of Hyrum men , who took positions on the roofs and kept everything soaked with water. Tho heat was so Intcnso that It crack- i . ed tho windows and scorched the ides of the buildings, 'but the property, prop-erty, was, saved, pther buildings sav-d sav-d by the timely arrival of toe Logan f)ro' department were the pool hall, the barber shop, the two story brick building of A. H. Palmer and Sons, bo Hrum Drug Storo, the printing office, and others. Origin of the Fire It will never bo definitely known whoro or how the flro originated. All sorts of theories are being advanced. The most plausible one Is that somo one In Algaler's candy kitchen forgot to turn oft tho current from an .electric .elec-tric heater before closing for the night. The building was extremely Inflammablo and all the .lire needed .'Was a start. Itr was because of the Inflammablo condition of the building and the consequent high rates charged charg-ed for Insurance that so much of the, property was not insured. Mayor Thatcher Shows Forethought Too much credit can not bo given Mayor Thatcher for tho presence of mind which he displayed on this occasion. oc-casion. Called out of bed at 2:30 a. m. he Immediately dispatched the new engine to Hyrum. Then, in order or-der that Logan might not bo left iwtthout, protection, ho at onco so- cured a new crew for the old onglno and held It in readiness for instant use until tho new machine was back In the barn. Mayor Thatcher has proved himself to be tho man for the job in every emergency that has axis-en. axis-en. We take off our hats to him. BoqueU For Fire Deparent Nothing but praise ca.n be heard la Hyrum for the prompt and afaeUra work of the Logan fire fighters. The entrance of .the, machine InioJHyrum waaaWa iiiap4TtelaWK reat.aad beea.Vhurot Mtekr'ot Uvai wires, aat fla approiK6triK .ln"... -' .'tx.-.J3a5;!tfii'J hugat eaglne .JU .Ha triftrt Urt&l 'tralltofat .ib rata, o3fc mOI TB buir-fHlia nolaa.of tb aBaehlBefy .and the unearthly, shrleka of the siren- were terrifying In the darkneas. Hyrum people are enthuslastlo too, over the why the Hyrum boys fought the Are. They were there from' the beginning and worked like Trojans till every sign of Are was extinguished' extinguish-ed' and all unsafe walls levelled. |