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Show i'OLD DEPOT BURNED TO THE GROUND Everything in Office Completely Destroyed Fire Originates in Living Room Where Gasoline Stove Exploded Following Morning Morn-ing Meal Coal Sheds Not Ignited This morning at about 9 o'clock the old depot building of the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway company on Washington Washing-ton avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-first streets, was practically burned to the ground. The frame of the building Is etlft standing, but there Is hardly a board in the structure that can be used In the rebuilding of the house. The place is fairly gutted by lire, everything in the' ofllco being completely destroyed. The damage is estimated at about $1,000. The fire originated in a rear room, in which Yardmaster E G, Endsmaker was living. He used a gasoline stove for cooking purposes And had only finished bis morning meal and turned out the gos when an explosion occurred, oc-curred, and the placo burned like tinder. tin-der. It was dry, and was made entirely en-tirely of wood, so that it "was only a few minutes until it wao completely enveloped In flames. So hot was the fire and so rapid In Its progress that I the employes there could not enler tho front part of the building to use tho telephone in sending in an alarm. The tire department made a remarkably re-markably quick run to the place, and succeeded admirably in saving a part of the building, adjoining buildings and box cars that were in the yard near the station house. The lire had burned loo rapidly, and had made such great headway before the fire department de-partment could possibly reach the house, that it was quite Impossible to savo the structure, or any of Its contents. con-tents. Since the removal of the Bamberger Bamber-ger depot to Lincoln avenue and Twenty-fifth street, the station that burned down has been used as a coal yard and freight station. The coal in the yard was stationed in sheds considerable con-siderable distance back of the building build-ing and it was not ignited. Officers of the railway company say the station will bo rebuilt at the earliest ear-liest possible time. |