Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-18 | Page 3 | $300,000 Fire in Idaho City

11901,000 RR IN IDAHO CITY Filer Swept By Blaze, Almost Entire Business District Destroyed FILER, Ida . Sept 18. Fire of undetermined un-determined origin wiped om practically practic-ally the entire business district of Filer; yesterdnv morning nna caused lost timated at $.'iO(J 000 The Mare Started In the basement of the FIlei Mercantile. . ' company but the cause Is not known J - Before arty attempt to combat the; flames could be made, it hnd spread to surrounding buildings and the en-1 tire town appeared to oe burning- Smoke Issuing from windows of the mercantile company building .it i o'clock first attracted attention, and, there was frantic effort to pel personal; property out of nearby buildings andj froi i living rooms above he store. With the flames galmn headway Twin Italia and Buhl were notified; and some equipment was sent fiom ; each town. Filer bcln?: midway b - ("r I twecn theni on the Twin Falls branch i of the Oregon Short Line f There was an Oregon Short Line' i : train in town and the crew pulled f tin- cars to a safe ditsance anil then' J returned, and. with all of the hpse r j available at the station, assisted in the ,JB fight to save the town. : Jjjj Efforts to combat the flames were 'tuF no effective on arcount of the low pressure of the water system, and the 9j main buildings ' hn w r. on fir, l,l'u! , V -', efforts to stop the blaze could tx ed were doomed ( em thi first Efforts were .iirer;.-d vith success toward a,v-k a,v-k ins other buildings, Including th lum- y'M bar .-r.i ind th-- and "i keep- r i ing the fire from spit adlng to the resl- ifl denci .-- (.lions of the town Some of the buildings were Still smouldering n bul the roV force of the blaze v. as spent early this '.'r-M morntir- 'i he rum- are being r. f u ! - jH ly guarded today, however, lo prevent any possibility of the fire gaming ' fF fresh start Efforts still arc being made Tft to discover the source of the fire IH Many are of the opinion that it was ot incendiary origin although no ovl-H ovl-H dence to substantiate this theory has H yet been produced