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Show ! FIRE DESTROYS PARRY BUILDING ALARM SENT IN AT MIDNIGHT AND BY EARLY MORNING THE BLOCK IS A SCENE OF WRECK AND RUIN FLAMES SUPPOSED TO HAVE STARTED ON THE FIRST FLOOR NEAR THE ELEVATOR SHAFT-LOSS ESTIMATED AT $92,000. WITH INSURANCE OF OVER $70,000 EIGHT STREAMS THROW TONS OF WATER ON THE BURNING BUILDING FIREMEN FEEL THE EFFECTS OF FROST-BITES ICE COVERS RUINS Fire of unknown orlun started In the Parry building on the corner of Washington avenue and Twenty -third street this morning at 12:16 0 clock and completely gutted the building, entailing B lOBfl to tenants and owners own-ers of $95,000. The loss Is distributed as follows Parry estate Building gutted Manager Man-ager Waller Parry estimates the loss at $10,000 . covered by insurance. lAmbcrt Paper company Stock and fixtures destroyed, loss estimated at $20,000- covered by Insurance Golden Eagle Clothing store Stock and fixtures destroyed, loss $20 000. The stock was Insured for 114,500 but the fixtures were not protected by j Insurance. Lyman Millinery company Loss Is estimated at 120,000 throu?h loss of 1 stock and fixtures. Insurance will cover about S per cent of the loss Boston store Stock and contents destroyed; loss of $12,000. with Insurance Insur-ance about half Milton Purdy Insurance office in basement Loss estimated at $3000. Fire on First Floor From the fact that the elevator ropes burned through, allowing the elevator to drop to the basement from the first floor, it is believed that the fire originated on the first or second floor and not In the basement, as at first supposed. Eight streams oi wa.er were piay-ed piay-ed upon the Hie irom shortly alter 12 o'clock until early morning, and the torrent of water did not cease until un-til 10 o'clock this morning, "hen the mass was nothing but a smoldering ruin. , . Walter Parry, manager of tho Par-rv Par-rv estate was unable to state just what his plans would be in regard to rebuilding, but he stated that a now building will be put up within a short ""when the building wn? round to be In flames Mr Parry was rung Up over the telephone, but because of a poor bell he did not hear the call and did not reach th, scene until 7 O clock thlfl morning Since the death o his father Joseph Parry and hi? brother, Joseph Parry Jr . an additional MJ00 fire Insurance policy had been placed upon the building A False Report George G Lambert Jr. and Lester N Lambert of the Lambert Paper company of Salt Like, uhose branch oft ice In Ogden was destroyed by the lire received a long distance call tmm Oeden at 2 o'clock last nisnt iu iub effect that their branch house was In flames Thev arrived in Ogden on tho first Bamberger train this morning morn-ing and went at once to the scene of the fire. The brother! denied the rumor that several barrels of pitch stored In their department gave ureat impetus to the flames Ninety barrels of asphaltnm. however were ntond outside and the barrels and contents are intact now pi the rear of the building. I "So great is the demand for pitch that we cannot get a sufficient sup-l sup-l lv " said George Lambert this morning morn-ing ' and lh. result Is we do not have any on hand to store at any point. We sell a largp number of barrels, but the pitch is taken dlrectlj from th.-gas th.-gas plant of the Utah Light & Rall-wav Rall-wav rompanv to the purchase s Even If we did have a supply on hand it would not have been stored within the building, as it cannot be daniated ! ...nncl,r n the flements. by exposure to the elements. We have arranged for a shipment of, stock from Salt Lake and will go 'right on with this part of the DUSl-' DUSl-' ness Bv this evening we hope to !have suitable quarters in which to: unload the shipments which will arrive ar-rive lrom Salt I-ake this evening There was nothing highly Inflamma-bio Inflamma-bio in our part of the Parry block and Manager Rose had made a rule to clear the place or all litter to I guard against fire Paper rlosel 'stacked is slow In burnings" Millinery Company's Loss. Manager Otto Bueohjoat of the Ly-I Ly-I man Brothers Millinery compan;. stated stat-ed this morning that the loss to the firm would reach 120,000 Tnc store rooms were crowded with cases of, spring goods that had only recentlj arrived Several cases had not been unpacked. "It has been the custom of the firm to carry Insuranco on the stock to the amount of SO per cent of the value. val-ue. We had but recently received several thousand dollars' worth of spring goods and had not insured this stock. The goods we had in stock were Insured to the customary 80 per cent, because we had no insurance on the new stock, our loss will be about half "Arrangements will ba made In order or-der that out business can go on at once. I will sond In orders for new stock and hope to have quarters ready upon It arrival." Mr Buschjost had several sample trunks packed with spring goods and was about to make a trip among his customers Boston Store Insurance Less than a month ago D. S. BchwaitS, manager of tho Boston atorc, says he cancelled $5,000 of the Insurance on the building and stock The cancellation of the Insurance was made when the firm decided to rent one of the rooniB occupied and use only the room on the corner as a place of business. He estimated he value Of the stock to be $12,n00 Insurance policies were held amounting to $G -000. Golden Eagle Insured. David Rosenthal, proprietor of the Golden Eagle Clothing store, carried Insurance amounting to fH.fiuu on his stock of $20,000. Tho fixtures were nol insured and he estimates his loss at between $6,000 and $7,000. Firemen at Hospital. t w. Phillips of the central fire station and Thomas Williams, a vol unteer, were taken to the Berges hospital, hos-pital, suffering of frosted hands and i feet They became wet from the I spray and were soon unable to continue contin-ue their work because of the Intense cold. After receiving e.coHleot Irea'-ment Irea'-ment at the hospital they were ab' to leave tain mormng, although they still suffered from the frost hltes. Joe Whitlaker of station No 2 was soaked with water when a hose got away from him ami froze to the pavement pave-ment In front of the Golden Eagle Ills wel clothes froze to the Ice on the walk and It was necessary for a policeman to release him from his po sitlon. II II Wardleigh stumbled in the basement and fell up to his neck In I water. Desplt.. this accident he work-led work-led on until his clothes froze and he ' was unable to move about. He then went to the station house, but re turned to the fire after changing I clothes Ed Ferguson's clothes became saturated sat-urated with water and It was necessary neces-sary for him to go to the station lo cast off his frozen clothes. All the firemen worked courageously courageous-ly under the greatest difficulties Caps and coats were covered with Ice and mittens soon became wet, the (old resulting causing Intense p;iln Those who answered the call In shoes were soon suffering from frosted feet and even those with rubber boots were troubled with the cold. Boy Gives Alarm A !!)- . ner ,,, , ril.-i ,i , r-i the fire anrl ran to the Elite cafe where he notified William Harris, who sent In a telephone call to the central station sta-tion and the department with all ap-j paratUl was soon on the scene The; combination wagon and men from station No. 2 arrived at about the ' same time. Fire Chief ('nnfield ordered eight j lines of hole laid as soon as possible i The aerial truck was drawn up along the east side Of the building and a line of hose was taken to the roof By taking the auto truck to the rear Of the building and pouring the cntlr' contents into what appeared to I be the seat of the fire, the flames iren checked for a few moments. Volumes of dense black smoke filled tho building and made difficult the fixing of the exact location of the fire Finally the flames broke out In the northwest corner of the baaemenl near the elevator shaft and appeared to crawl along the beams In the basement, base-ment, bursting out on the first floor near the rear of the Boston store and office of the Lambert Paper company Fire on Flrit Floor. While the evidence early this morning morn-ing seemed to Indicate that the fire originated In the basement, other developments de-velopments pointed to the contrary The freight elevator used by three occupants of the building was at rest on the first floor After the firemen arrived the fire burned the ropes to ; the elevator allowing It to fall down the shaft The elevator was not! burned to such an extent as it would have been bad tbc flames originated orig-inated below 1L By reason of tho fact that tho ropes were burned between the first and second stories, It Is thought that the fire originated on tho first floor. It was but a few moments before the tire extended through the elevator eleva-tor shaft to the second floor When the roof was burned away, the flamos raced up through the shaft extending many feet In the air and lighting up the town for many blocks In a smaller smal-ler way tho blare resemble the burning burn-ing Ecclc8 building in that the flames shot up through the elevator shaft as they would through a chimney with strong draughts. Frank Tenney Safe. During the enrly stages of the fir a report circulated among the onlookers on-lookers that Frank Tenney, a salesman sales-man for the millinery company, was asleep In the office on the second I floor. A number of volunteers groped their way up the staira through the smoke and searched tbc rooms, after breaking in the door with a crowbar Later Frunk Rose learned from Manager Man-ager Buschjost that the man had left last night on a business trip for the house. Interior Soon Destroyed Aflei the flames got through tho roof, the building was rapidly gutted by tho flames At 10 o'clock, when the streams of water were shut off. there was nothing within the four walls of tho building that was not burned or charred Even tenant in the building stated that he had no hopes of saving anything While the building is gutted, the walld appear to be intact with the exception of the east wall which bulges bul-ges over the sidewalk about 14 inches This warp was caused bv the piling up against it of the chaired rafters of the upper story lloor. Walter Parry sas he will start pumps at work on the basement at once In order to draw out the water before it freezes and cracks the foundations foun-dations Water Formed Icicles. Despite the fact that the building was In flames, the water thrown upon up-on the brick and woodwork formed Icicles at every point not directly ox-posed ox-posed to the fire The sidewalks wore covered with Ice several Inches thick Water leaking from the hose extended to the car tracks durlni; the time the cars were not running and It was necessary for a force of men with picks to clear the Ice from the rails before service could be resumed |