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Show SPECTACULAR BLAZE AT THE HOTEL UTAH Salt Lake, SopL 24. Flames and smoke shooting upward from the roof of the Hotel Utah lost evening at dusk caused considerable excitement and called out the entlro force of the fire department on a false alarm. . A squad of flromen, mounting to the roof by the fire escape, discovered discov-ered that the flames came from burning burn-ing soot and grease in r'o ventilating flue that not long since set nre to tho Immense beehive on top of the building. build-ing. Last night, however, the blaze did not spread beyond the flue, except ex-cept to reach upward Into the sky liko a huge candle flame Salt Lake, Sept. 24. Falling twenty twen-ty feet when a scaffold upon which he and a companion were working, Charles Silver, a carpenter, of 962 Bryant avenue, suffered fractures of the skull and the left arm, at the new west si(1e department store under construction by D. W. Horslcy. G10 West North Temple street at 1:10 p. m , yesterday. J. Clark, who was on tho scaffold with ' Silver assisting at building a cornice, when the scaffold gave way, escaped with a severe shock Noticing Notic-ing that a 2xC "lookout" upon which the planks of he scaffold were resting rest-ing was weakening, Clark caught hold of Silver with one hand and tried to bang onto a window frame with tho other, but the combined weight of two men was more than he could sustain. Clark alighted upon his oldo and Silver Sil-ver struck upon his left shoulder, tho latter's head coming in contact with a brickbat, which inflicted a fracture above the left eye. |