| Show MANy HOMELESS IN BINGHAM FIRE Upper Section of Town Is Damaged Done by Fire Many Flee In Night Attire as ac FI Flames Spread Rapidly Four Hotels Rooming House Destroyed Emergency Call Brings S. S L. L County Fire Equipment I ISalt Salt Lake Three Lake Three hundred and fifty persons Dersons were rendered homeless and andI I of approximately one done one in a fire which wept through a section of upper Bingham Bingham Bing- Bing ham bam early Friday morning Through the tho combined efforts of or the tho Salt Lake City county Bingham volunteer volunteer vol yol- fire departments and the Utah Copper company emergency equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment and the conduct of or orthe the volunteer firemen entire Upper Bingham was saved from destruction Two frame hotels and one rooming house were burned to the ground and I two brick hotels were completely gut gut- ted Tho The blaze originated in the rear of or orthe the tho Nick PInos Tinos grocery grocer store at 20 o'clock and aud ate its way rapidly in both directions Albert Newman drug clerk In the Diamond bar noticed the flames llames shooting from the grocery store and nd sounded the tho alarm So rapidly did the fire spread that occupants of or rooming houses and small canyon canon homes had no time to obtain obtain obtain ob ob- tain their belongings Man Many fled fied in their night clothing only a few stopping stopping stopping stop stop- ping long enough to grab a wrap to protect them from the chilly morning air Five minutes after the alarm was turned in the volunteer equipment No 1 and No 2 arrived on the scene but even then the fire was shooting from the Venice hotel on the right of the PInos grocery grocer The flames shot high In n the air and leaped across the narrow narrow narrow nar nar- row street and Ignited the Copper and Bingham Dingham hotels Faced with the task of fighting the blaze on both sides of the narrow tortuous tortuous tortuous tor tor- tor- tor avenue Acting Chief William Wllliam Harris put in an emergency call for tor forthe forthe the Salt Lake county volunteer depart depart- ment Before the county equipment after a record run of twenty-five twenty min min- minutes minutes utes from Murra Murray arrived the Bingham Bingham Bingham Bing Bing- ham volunteers had successfully checked the blaze on the west side of the street The new concrete exchange building of or the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company proved the obstacle obstacle ob ob- ob stacle stacIe that prevented the spread of the flames down the canyon The buildings the belongings the proprietor and the estimated dama damage e follow tollow Copper hotel P. P H. H Pitches Pitch os Bingham hotel Andrew Modern hotel G. G S. S Underhill 25 Venice hotel Mrs Mira M M. J. J Contratto Contralto Pinos grocery and rooming house Nick Pinos Henry Wise building and rooming house Henry Wise Vise home Greek coffee house and pool hall Mike Ma Chinese restaurant nt The fire is believed to have been caused by an overheated coal stove |
