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Show NARROW ESCAPES AT HOTEL BLAZE SALT LAKE, Aug. 15. Several guests were more or less seriously burned and all wore compelled to fleo in their night clothes when the Fer-ber Fer-ber hotel, in the Deep Creek section, burned to the ground early Monday morning. The fire, which is believed to have been of incendiary origin, broke out about 2 o'clock in the morning. morn-ing. The alarm waB sounded by a belated be-lated miner returning to the town and it was with, difficulty that tho guests were saved. The hotel was built at a cost of $10,600 and the furnishings were valued val-ued at about $5000. A Salt Lake furniture furn-iture house had a mortgage on tho furniture and an investigation is being be-ing conducted into the origin of the fire. It was with difficulty that the miners-and the-townspeople prevented the flames from spreading to adjoining adjoin-ing buildings. As tho town is without water supply and no lire department has been organized, the old bucket brigade bri-gade was called into play to save adjoining ad-joining property. More than a dozen men escaped from the burning building without saving sav-ing their clothing and were compelled to wait until the stores opened In the morning in order to got overalls and jumpors. Ferber is located just over tho Utah line in Nevada. nrv . |