Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-06 | Page 3 | Fire Destroys Firth Business Properties

FIRE DESTROYS FIRTH BUSINESS PROPERTIES TiLACKFOOT, Ida.. Jan. 5. A fire at l'lrth. ten miles north of this city, this ino'rnlng destroyed business prop-erty prop-erty to the value of $ 15.000 ami was prevented fern wiping out the entire business district by a bucket brigade of 160 men and boys battling against a heavy gale Fire, npparatus from Black foot was asked for but not sent. Rosses and insurance are as follows: Frank Belcher, frame building1, general gen-eral stock and restaurant, total loss. $10,000; insurance $6000; First National Na-tional bank, damage $3100, fullv insured; in-sured; Orson Andrus. office building, loss $1,100. no Insurance. The fire broke out at 6:30 o'clock in the Belcher restaurant through the explosion of a kerosene lamp, thcr.co communicating to the bank and Andrus An-drus building on either side. Belcher was slightly burned in an attempt to extinguish the fire. Tho bank opened for business at the usual tlnn In the Boyle-Blayton hardware store. nr