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Show I TWO FIRES DESTROY If MUCH PROPERTY AND I! DRAW GREAT CROWD i' I Macaroni Plant and Old Denver & Rio Grande I Depot Consumed by Flames Which Are Sup- I-' 1 posed to Have Been of Incendiary Origin Loss I Is Estimated at $20,000 - Near-by Homes I Take Fire,But Fames Are Quickly Extinguished. f,l(f : Large fires, declared by both th po- I fim ' 'co aI1( 'r? eParinen' lo De of in UBI I cendiary origin, practically destr '! the largo warehouse of the Ogden I Ij.fr , Junk company, formerly the freight Ihouse of the D. & R. G. railroad, and .'L ihe buildine; of the Ogden Macaroni Manufacturing company List niqht aft- 1 cr 9 o'clock. The fires threatened both sides of Washington avenue from j Twenty-first street 'o the Ogden river bridge, according to fire department I reports The total damage to both establishments es-tablishments is estimated at about $20,000. I' The fire at the Macaroni company plant occurred about 0 30 o'clock. The fire department responded Immediate '"' ly and four streams of "water were ' i played upon the flames. The frame j buiiding at the plant was destroyed "jft I but the brick structure was partly I saved. fi' t The blaze that destroyed the Junk company's place wae by far the most serious of the two fires. Tho fire i broke out near the southeast corner ' of t.- Btructuro and spread in a very itl ten minutes to all pans of the build i IB I ing. Within an hour after the call was wM i sent in, the building was a mass of. ruins. Sparks from 1 his fire, carried, by a strong wind from the southeast L; set fire to three houses just to the north. One of the houses, the property Ijjffi t of John Farr. was damaged to the ex I tent of several hundred dollars. Fires , f on the roof of the other two buildings L.K did but little damage. Four streams of water were played on both fires from the time of th- call last night until f o'clock this mornins According to witnesses, Including Detective Ed Butterf.eld and William; A. Taylor, the junk house fire started; near the southeast corner A small blaze was first seen to shoot alons tho in'S platform on th'1 south of the building, ifiin thence up the walls to the roof. The building, whic h was of frame construe IIH tion. burst into a mass of flames al-most al-most spontaneously. This fire, the fire I men said, bore all the evidences of hav- f.yiH. og been started by gasoline. , A man, who was described as short , MH 'in stature, wearing a slouch black hat j j and white shirt, was seen near a gra IIb I tfire in the rear of the American Can factory, according to the watchman, luflf I Erncst Dowling Mr. Howling saw th' ,flre and the man at the same time. He made for the fire, and the man, ' 'j i seem- bun started t run away A bi i special poln e, one of ihe extra patrol of the warehouse district, fired at the LR I alleged firebug, but the shot d)d not take effect, Mr. Dowling said. The grass fire was extinguished without I causing damage. The' department was still at th IRlH I .macaroni factory lire when tin- iunk If J house burst into flames Owing to dry, intlammable material j ot which the junk house was built, ( I the building was a mass of flames be i fore water could be brought to play on it. Hose was laid from all avail ( able plugs. Exploding gasoline added to the fury of the blaze and for a time little head I !w 1 vay was mnii by the firemen. Flames 1 I caused by the gasoline shot northeast across Washington avenue, dropping showers of sparks. These sparks I l I started the houses to the north, and ( fire hose had to be taken from the ' larger fire m an effort to save the ' tali I homes Seven houses between the junk ' H , jl I house and Tv, iiii'-th street were soon : emptied of furniture and the household 111 1 goods lined the street for nearlv a IH block. Among the house threatened were those owned by John Farr, Hy-l Hy-l i rum Belnap, William San Dyke and Ul'lf ' Mis. Kmina Hansel Two firemen fiphiins the junk house I fill ir0 werJ s;iiJ to have bet-ii knocked .4 'f to the ground by an electric current "when the stream they were playing on ; I the flames struck an electric, light Traff.c T.edUp r All traffic. Including the street car pin I T'n5- wa ticd up on Washington ac 1 nue for several hours. The power wa.s shut off in the trolley wires when the poles carrying the trolley wire into the old Rio Grande freight yards were I burned down, taking the wires with j, them. Vern Richardson is said to have rescued res-cued an automobile from the flaming H BJic I building. A truck was lout in the . I lllL I burning building, it Is said, as well as records of the Junk company and parts tjiit from wrecked automobiles and junk of Joseph and David KreineS are the proprietors of the junk house The H I huildin? was formerly th- freight 6ta- I'srP ' ,lon of ,he Donv'r & Rio Grande rail lilp ' Toad and was a larpe structure, about -40 feet in width and 250 feet lon. Hundreds of people attracted by the two fires thronged the streets and before they wore driven back, ham- W pep' d I he e fop The firo at the Ogden Macaroni factory fac-tory was noticed by the small dauch- V I ,rr William Spanzenberg. 1966 I I iWashington avenue, at 9:22 o'clock 11 She immediately notified the fire department de-partment and both department No. 1 iand No. 2 were soon on the sc-n'- of ' I the fire. Host Unei wire run from ! ' t very available fire plug in th- ic,int 'i I 'uud Uie special pump which Increases In! 1'JO waT,'r pressure tbrccfold, v. as put HV in operation. According lo Spanzen- H berg, the fire was started by gasoline. , He could smell the fumes, he plated. H s and the flames, as they rapidly spread. I ft were described by turn ps making a . hissing sound. Gasoline Was Used. Hfl j , U C. Williams, blacksmith, 2050 Washington avenue, stated that he had seen two men pass in front of bis house. They were, he alleges, carrying carry-ing a fh e gallon milk pail of gasoline He could tell that the liquid In the bucket was gasoline, he said, by the odor At the time when the men passed, Williams, his wife and two or three other people were starting to visit friends on the other side of the Ogden river bridge. Heber Oborn, an employe of the gas station at the corner of Twenty-first Street, stated lhat two different parties 1 d at the gas station a short time before the fire started and obtained gasoline in buckets. Two boys, who said that their Ford car had run out of fuel on the north side of the Ogden riber bridge obtained a container from the station, carried it away, and returned re-turned to the station in the car to return re-turn the container. Perhaps the largest crowd that ever gathered in Ogden was present at the macaroni factory fire. Washington avenue ave-nue was lined with automobiles for al most three blocks south of the Ogden river bridge, while thousands of pedes triana gath red to watch the flames. A hillside to the rear of the burninc building, which former part of a natural nat-ural amphitheater, was literally covered cover-ed with people, while the cemetery', a the top of the hill, was lined with automobiles. au-tomobiles. The high pressure streamj plaing cn the burning building soon bad the fire under control to an extent that entrance could be effected through the main building. The factory has not been in opera-lion opera-lion during the war, It is stated, due J to the scarcity of flour. It is a branch of s large factory in Salt Lake, owned It is stated. h the Western Macaroni company of wht h R E. Miller is president |