Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-07-15 | Page 1 | Bingham, Utah, Has Another Serious Fire

BINGHAM UTAH HAS ANOTHER SERIOUS FIRE FIR S Concrete d Phone Building Prevents Possible Clean Sweep BINGHAM DING HAM Utah July 15 By By ByThe The Associated Press Three Three hun hun- hundred hundred hundred dred and fifty persons were made homeless by a fire that destroyed nine buildings and did an estimated damage of here this mom morn Ing The fire started from an art un un- unknown unknown Unknown known cause in the Olympic cafe and had gained considerable head head- headway headway headway way before It was discovered Fire Firefighting fighting apparatus from Salt Lake county Salt Lake City and Bingham Dingham succeeded in bringing the fire under control three and a a. half how hours after It started st No one was Injured Starting In the Olympic cafe In Inthe Inthe Inthe the lower canyon canon on at about 4 o'clock the flames soon ate their way through the flimsy rumsy frame structures to the Modem hotel and the Venice hotel and then spread to Pino and Caputo's grocery store Leaping across the narrow street the fire caught the Bingham hotel and the Copper hotel But the fire fire- firemen firemen firemen men from Salt Lake City and Salt Lake county assisted the local de department do- do department In confining the flames to the fronts of these buildings Other buildings damaged Included the Quinn building which was practically a total loss and Dominick and store Gradually eating Its way down the street the flames were brought un un- under under un- un under der control when they reached the new building of the Mountain States Telephone company a concrete structure structure structure ture two stories high The building still uncompleted is of concrete con con- construction construction and the solid walls prevented prevent prevent- ed the flames from spreading Several months ago a similar fire destroyed half a dozen buildings be be- be before before fore brought under control