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Show 3 Fire Destroys the Plant of the J Everfresh Product Company r I i ' The factory of ihe Everfresh Prc-i, Prc-i, Hfeact5 company i i Twentieth street ; nd Hk'all avenuc: valued with its contents at $75. 111111 was completely destroyed yesten!.i .iii' rn""n, when a fire, orig-f orig-f Rnatint: in the rear of the establuh-; establuh-; 1 Bbent, w. pi nv r rh- structure Aided by the ' rd l ' r oon, the fire war out of control before Ee fire department could arrive on the I err-n". Tin attemp'ine to stop the spread of Bie fire Firemen Hamilton ami Mc-Httarland Mc-Httarland were overcome with the heat Bid had to be removed. Captain I'in I ton and Fireman Visser had their caps I burned off their heads There seems to be some difference opinion as to how the nre originat- i cd. It v.i- l.ri r'-purti'd i;. .a sparks ' from a passinc engine started a fire j Hthe rear of the factory, which aided By the wind swept toward the estab-: estab-: lishnjent and set fire to it. Other re-, re-, port? state that boy? plainz in that ' cinity set fire to the dry grass, and J (hat this was burning more than an ho;r J the factory became Bknited. The grass fire attacked the fence Ic the rear of the faciory and the fenee Hntioued to hum unnoticed until it Ignited the building. Miss Myrtle Johnson, 2213 Jackson Benue, bookkeeper of the company. Hps the onl oeeupant of the build .it Hhen the ' re staited at the factory-beimniedi.it.;. factory-beimniedi.it.;. -nt word to th 'Ire Hat ion. and, according to report. ih-Hre' ih-Hre' dep iri ni on it'' around Hree minute- : n. r the alarm. Nearly all of the office equipment Bfcd records n carried from the establishment es-tablishment and saved. SCENE AFTER THE FIRE. port, claims that the messace stated thai the fence in the rear of the fai tory was on flr, but when the dep in ment arrived the entire west half if the building was enveloped. Three water lines were laid Tin fire start d from the west end and was rapidly moving eastward. The Firemen at tempted to check the fire py p.'a1. .t-water .t-water on the center of the buildinc. I They seemed to have the f ir practlt al-ly al-ly under control when an oil tank exploded, ex-ploded, literally throwing the flames all over the building Ii was at 'his point that the two firemen were overcome over-come with the heat The fire crews were forced to re'ire from the immediate vicinity of the 'ir and leave behind them ten lengths of , hose, which was burned The explosion of the oil lank thll W flames for some distance and the roof 'of the Fruit Growers" building as ignited and this ior a time diverted the attention of the firemen. Fearing that sparks and the heat from the fires would explode tanks j containing kerosene and gasoline, the police, a large number of whom were jat the scene of the fire, kept the crowd from pressing loo close. The residence of George Becker a'so caught on fire from sparks. The h none ; v. as only slightly damaged. This residence resi-dence was only a short distance from the gas tanks. Sparks also ignited Western Union telegraph poles. One of the poles 'a as burned In two and fell to the ground. The wires, however, swung loose of the pole and were not broken. Electric light wires had to be cut. however, to allow the firemen to work. The building contained a lare By Christy Studio. The fireman who received the re--1 amount of dehydrated products, and it 'was reported that a large quantity of cans, the property of fbe Utah Pack-ling Pack-ling Corporation, were stored in the ' building Just a few days ago an inventorv of the plant was completed and a new, insurance policy taken out by th, company This will practically cover tb loss. People owning homes near tb 1 1 r 1 were on the housetops soaking the, ' roofs with water. , It vas also stated by the firemen that the low water pressure greatly 'hindered their work fr |