Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-22 | Page 1 | $300,000 Fire Strikes Twin Falls, Idaho

i ,v w n Wrights of Ogden Among n Those Suffering Loss Through M Idaho Biaze 1 CITIZENS LEAVE BEDS i 0 TO AID DEPARTMENT k ( Careless Cigaret Smoker Is r Blamed for Damage in mi Business Section SEa ', (Special Dispatch) MR'.1- TWIN FALLS, Idn., May 22. Fire afigT : originating- in the Cotillion dance pa- iDjK vilion, a building which recently was VFv 1 condemned by the fire department, re- !W : suited in a $300,000 loss in the main IW j . business section of Twin Falls early Iffl, ' this morning. tsP About twenty firms suffered losses iral verging from a few hundreds to sev- $W5J,1 oral thousands of dollars, wguji. The destroyed section totaled about II I ness section. t I Among the principal business houses .; involved in the loss was Wrights' Dry Goods store and the United Stores. K, 1 There was a dance held In the pa- fc vilfon last night It is thought that - a cigarette carelessly thrown away f caused the blaze. Tfcl y Nobody saw the fire until the roof IIJl "-"' was a mass of flames. " Then when the w, alarm was turned in to the fire de- m partment,,iL3va.s-too-'ato-t-check-t4ie. Hi flames. J i Nearly the entire city left, warm w beds to. watch the blaze or to -.assist a in 'the attempt To check the flames. C. E. Wright, manager of tho Twin f Falls branch of the W. H. Wright & ) Sons' company of this city, reported by, telephone this morning that the' Rico structure, a two-story brick build-1 'ing occupied jointly with the United) I stores, bus been damaged by smoke 1 and water. The extent of damage to the stock had not been definitely as-kmiA as-kmiA . certalned. At that time, the firemen if i apparently had tho blaze under con- fjfflM trol. ffiljj The Twin Falls branch, Gus Wright )na salcl here, was started last November.1