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Show 1 TROOPS MAY BE k CALLED TO OGDEN $ DURING FIRE TERROR . if i Another Fire Alarms the People of Ogden and a ) Vigilance Committee Is Proposed Railroad 1 1 Superintendent Arrives on Special Train to Investigate the Burning of Ice Houses Thousands Thous-ands See Spectacular Blaze Which Illuminates ; West Part of Ogden - Firemen Meet With 1;; I Great Difficulties. t-:.. , . , ir, itnM tra hmieec I hnnsa Vn 'A Almnsl within the twink- Irit'' lutuuuiviiii swe ' i belonging to ih- I'nion Pacific rail " road, are totally rr;tro d as thp re u . suit of the most disastrous fire that alT L has occurred in Ogden nf Ian The fire .started al practically the IH fl came ti-pie. a have eleven other latci' tire in this rity in the past thirty das sbonly after 10 o'clock. The Utah 1 ' I''' anr' Storage cornpanj plant, which L iraniediately adjoins trip Storage 'fjiflj houses, Mas saved from destruction, ilip ftj -u'? t0 th,? nProir an,i prompt efforts of a fire -squad composed ot local rail Jr ". load men The loss at last night's fire Ifl estimated esti-mated at ovr-r $50,0.00. Oyei 3500 tou? jjjjf k) oT ice stored in i'k- buildings wa- al 0 Ml fi destroyed. The damage to the Utah L fruit crop and other iruits that will he sent through Ogden lo tho east, im ifj 1' temporary facilities .ire e-tae-'Hll l;shed will increase 'ho loss in ohut That the five buildings had been I prpareu ior mo lire r some me HU m fiend is accepted as a tact, as the nospread no-spread over the entire five buildings h ! lT within a few minutes. A five-gallon coal oil can. with its contents was I I found in tho brush to the roar of the building by Cyril Kkin. n appren tice fireman. The can was pjaced in, the hands of Fire t hief Graves, who will in turn place it in the hands of i frl (h the police woman reported to the! authorities thai she had been stopped by a man runninc up Twenty-eighl h I street in the opposite direction ot tta( fire, and asked it ih- ico house was burning. Low Water Pressure k h f 1 The alarm of fire was sounded tirst ; Hl by the whistles of railroad engines in the yards. The tire .department left the central station at 10 12 o'clock but it was some time before a stream of 'jihl A water could be played on the building vfc. ( because of low water pressure. The Mh railroad fire squad brought the emergency emer-gency fire hose to the scene and tj'IC played a stream of water on the ice plant and the large tanks of gasoline that were almost in the midst of the burning buildings. It was greatly due to the efforts of thio squad that the plant was saved The city fire department experienced considerable difflcirity in retting i !i o HhH streams ut water into play upon the building. One of the large fire trucks, jjl carrying a large amount of hose, was wrecked on the corner of Twenty -Nw SI eighth street and Lincoln avenue and this hose had to be transferred to nn-.1 nn-.1 ifc other truck, (mo city tire hose con-!''' con-!''' H nected with a railroad lndrant burst. IIS as tnPU necessary to run water lines to the fiie from Pacific avenue and Twenty -eighth street. Only three IHHI streams were brought into active play The blaze originally started, according accord-ing to reports, on thr insiup of store- ling Of an eve, tlie fire had spread to all the five buildings, which were soon enveloped in flames The flames lighted the sky for blocks around, awffioienl almost to enable en-able cine to read a new-paper. Large I crowds attracted bj 'he flame.- ran to the fire and caused considerable trouble trou-ble for the firefighters. Within half an hour after the fire j had started, lines of box cars were covered with spectators and tho yards were literally covered with men and women Thousands saw the spectacular spectac-ular blaze. All Night Fight Strings ot fruit cars wore on track-near track-near tho burning ice houses and wore seriously scorched. Engine crews in the yards set to work drawinc these Cars and a large number of oil tanks out of the path of the flames. The lire was brought to a climax when ammonia lank: and two line lanivr. nursi arm oem names nun in the air and for a considerable dis- I tanee on all sides. The fire became so hot that the j firemen had to withdraw for a time. 1 The explosion of the gas tanks came a 1 1 er the buldings wop almost a mas of ruins, which perhaps saved the Mrs from getting absolutely out of conr"! The firemen remained on the job un til 7 o'clock this morning and quench ed all the smouldering embers. The icing station and the ice plant, which has a capacity of 50 tons daily, is leased to the Pacific Fruit BxpreBS company The storage houses had a capacity of about 6000 tons each, but! were noi filled. Railroad officials stated this morning that it has been necessary for th y.iM lev,- days, be-1 cause of the heavy shipments of fruit from the coast, to ship ice to this ii from Pocateilo ahd Evanston. This operation op-eration will have to be continued on' I a larger scale than eter H L. Boll, superintendent of the O. U. R. & D. slated that, tho buildings were insured and thr- loss will bo cov- i ered. j Prominent manufacturers In this ejt, in whose district fires have been I burning, have taken steps to have (heir establishment :marded with special spe-cial watchmen armed with guns The police department bas given these guards instructions to shoot if they, ; find any firebugs In their vicinity Chief of Police T. E Drowning staled this mdrning thai ho had plac-' I ed 15 more men on the pollc payroll pay-roll and that two-thirds of the depart - 1 ment is working night shifts. The men are directed, according to the ', chief, to guard especially the industrial! districts, and make arrests of all sus- ! picious persons and agrants j This squad of extra men has been working, according to reports, for the . past two weeks, but so far they have railed to be of any value in .-lopping the fire terror. That government troops might be called to this city to protect the gov-cinmenl gov-cinmenl railroad property from fur-iher fur-iher disasters was hinted at by local railroad authorities II. V. Piatt, vice president of the Oregon Short Line railroad arrived in Ogden this morning morn-ing on a -pet ml H un from Pocateilo :o Investigate he fire and Us cat! I tJreat numbers of people at the fire expressed t h mselves as being in favor o; the formation of a vigilance com mittee. Members of the fire department asked ask-ed the Standard this morning to express ex-press through (he paper their appreciation appre-ciation of the work done by the railroad rail-road fire crew in preventing the spread of the fire. No arrests wcrf made by the police last night, as was reported. W. II WatUs stated last night that he was jn favor Of forming a citizens' committee to get down at the bottom of these incendiary fire |