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Show FLAMES DESTROY THE SANITARIUM REPORT AT THE MCUTH OF OGDEN CANYON BURNS TO THE GROUND "at AN EARLY HOUR THIS MORNING LOSS PLACED AT $35,000 WITH INSURANCE $21 000 CAUSE OF FIRE IS U N K NO W N-B R I G. ROBINSON AND A JAPANESE ESCAPE FROM BURNING BUILDING. Within two hours after smoke was discovered and the lessee. Brigham M. Hobinson and a Japanese attendant with difficulty made tbeir way out o: the building, the Oguen Canyon Sani tarlum was a mass of ruins The loss is total and there is not a vestige of the building, except a brick wall at the rear of the main building. At about 5 o'clock this morning. Mr Robinson and the Jnp were awakened 'by dense smoke which filled the en ' tire building They rushed down I stairs and finally groped their WB) I to the outside Telephonic communi cation was cut off by the fire and the alarm did not reach the fire stv tion until about 6 o'clock, when the night foreman at the Utah Light & I Railway power house, a short distance dis-tance west of the sanitarium, telephoned tele-phoned to the fir. station. Chief Can field and his men in th auto-truck, made a fast run of thre miles, reaching the plac shortly af ter 6 o'clock, but the building was then practically burned to the ground The department was entirely helpless as the building was outside the fire hydrant limits and no water was available. avail-able. A bucket brigade was formed by the firemen and water carried from the rier to the burning house, but to no avail as the fire had gained such headway that it was Impossible to check It. None of the furnishing? could he saved. The chief stated that practically within two hours of the time the fire was discovered, tb? place was reduced to ashes. As near as can be determined, the fire started in the east end of the tincture which was used as a kitchen The canyon breeze from the east car ried the flames with great rapidity over the building The building was of wood and burned like tinder, the flames shooting high In th air, light Ing the mountain sides for a great distance Residents in the eastern part of the city, who were up at that hour, saw the whole gorge at th? mouth of the canyon brilliantly lighted by the blaze. The cause of the fire is not known It is presumed though that it started from a defective flue. The entire structure was heated by coal stoves. The private baths in the rear of th main building were within hriek walls, now the only part of the building standing The property is owned by the Og den Medicinal Springs company, com posed of Ogden people the officers of which are Brigham Iff. Robinson, presl ident. and James H Riley. secretar land treasurer, who, with James Pin I gree. form the directorate. The officers of the company state that the loss is from 135,000 to $40,000. I with Insurance- 121,000. The strut I ture contained 27 sleeping rooms. 22 of which were well furnished; five large rooms on the ground floor, including in-cluding kit hen. dinlug rooms, office quarters and a parlor. The sleeping 'rooms were on the upper floor, the building being two stones high. Th Sanitarium contained two large plunges and twelve private baths, be sides dressing rooms and other apart j ments The Sanitarium has had rather a checkered career, due largely to lltlga tion from the time or the building o! the place until r.bout two years ago It always has been considered as one of Ogden's most popular health and bathing. resorts a genuinely attra lire plate where many people visited for the bathing privileges and th-. medical benefits obtained from the hot mineral waters. Those interested in the property B8J that more than $65,000 have been spent on the grounds and building the structure being ererted nine v.;.r , ago When the Ogd:n Canyon Resort I company built the original Sanitarium and made other Improvements. A I few years :-fter that lime the Ogdeu Investment & Realty company took over ov-er the place. Then the Ogden Can I yon Sanitarium company got control and finally the present company pur ! chased the property I In the early history of the Sair tarium, the company owning it be eame Involved in the sum of from $12. O'tO to $14.in'0. the late Thomas Kurtz furnishing securities lo liquidate the obligations A mortgage was given on the properly and after the death of Kurtz, foreclosure was had. Jerry Kurtz, as trustee for the estate of Thomas Kurtz, deceased buying the property at sheriff's sale The estate became involved in loans on the property prop-erty and litigation followed, until the estate sold the property to the present pres-ent company The officers of the company say (that they have expended more than $6000 on the premises within the past two years, but are not prepared to say what will he done with thr- piece now but that the prospects are the resort will be rebuilt. Brigham M Robinson, president ol the company, has been oporating the Sanitarium the past few months under un-der a lease |