Show SUFFERS SERIOUS LOSS BY FIRE PRICE AIDS helair was the scene sunda sunday light of the worst fire in the his ory ry of f carbon county an and only he e quick r of price ire re boy boys with the electric truck ept the fire are from spread spreading frig over he larger largel portion ol 01 atthe the to town n the he loss is 4 I 1 d II 11 AIS IS lust just 5 55 MT buies from the time he lie c ill wa was hecei received td in price until he lie eruik had gathered up eight members embers of the department and abstained lita ined written permission from mayor layor wootton to leav the city mth ith the apparatus and was laying the hose on the blaze in helper seven miles away the heaviest ica losers are pete boone ind and M na P bergera bozone owned sever il 1 bud building dingi on main treet street and many shacks shocks ilona the iver river behind the other buildings bergera owned the double rock tore store building in which was also located the little utah hotel are blamed for the blaze which started in a shack filled with hay and kindling in the ear rear of the bozone business buildings both bozone and bergera had ad received several blackland black hand letters iter about three months ago and last istrick reek the threats on bozone ere renewed he lost his home two vo business buildings ind a numer ber oi of smaller shacks along the iver river antiope labon had a build ing 1 badly damaged and the japs sing using it lost a few hundred dollars forth of stuff labon owned a frame ame house between tome some of the burnt arnt buildings but by a eak play the ie fire jumped over it B flaim lost st ins his home but saved most of is 11 household goods bergera can not ot replace the double rock for he had only a nominal mount amount of insurance as it was ever neler supposed that the building could be hurt by fire nothing now ow stand stands but part of one of the thick ack heavy stone walls F C Bet er tolma tolina had recently purchased the ie stock of the double rock store ore and his loss los is placed at close to with only small insurance ce J atom tom fitch lost orth worth of frame buildings and would have sold his brick block and id his home pretty cheap while the e fire raged in the tile immediate vicinity he gives the price boys I 1 credit for or saving the larger part of his property I 1 ahe he ibo jlove e figures are estimates as 31 it was impossible when the writer visited the scene to check the losses accurately J T charlesworth deserves J large share of the credit for pre preventing enting the tile flames from reaching across the street and taking in he the rio grande hotel and from tint thit ever thing along the tracks tricks charlesworth stood covered wilh with a wet bi for many hours playing a hose on his home which was scorched in spite of his work ork had it caught the flames would have been beyond control jimmie learned how to sleep in france and he was snoozing peacefully w hen the fi emen jerked him out of his room just as the flames burst in gilbert miller a railroad man came home to find his sunday sund ay iy clothespin clothes in danger and in trying to rescue them he was as suffocated but the fire boys brought him out one of the railroad boys who was coming home lust just continued Contin tied on pa 8 HELPER SUFFERS i as the fire started about 12 15 sas s that when hen he began to shout fire a man jumped from behind a tree and ordered him hm to shut up when ht repeated his yell the fellow took a couple of shots at him and disappeared mayor F it R niky is most in his praise of the price bos who ho assisted in conquering clu cring the flames a and nd he prom promptly ati called the council together tofi ether and ma made de arrangements to send each one a check for these were A ere received by elmie Ber berardi nick bernardi joe golding clyde harris frank morgan king kin and charley parrell forrell elmie bernardi nardi was acting cc chief I 1 with nick in charge of the engine and king bossing the nozzle |