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Show FI1E DESTROYS SALT PALACE Blackened walls, twlated glrdera and heaps of smouldering embers aro all that remain of Salt Lake City's Salt Palace, famous for advertising tho great natural resourco of Utah, of which It was bull.- The fire of mysterious origin, which entailed u loss of $50,00.1. burst from tho Interior In-terior of tho ."Third Dogroe," an electrical elec-trical concession,' at 2:20 o'clock yesterday yes-terday morning In a fountain of flame. With tho wind blowing a gale, tho flames wore carried over the soda water stand and set Ore to the roof of the Salt Palace, tho main building build-ing of the resort, In a dozen places. From these little, torches, the fire ate into the roof and soon enveloped the large domo.the wind fanning the flames and carrying them briskly over the cntiro roof. When tho alarm was turned into headquarters, the "Third Degree'' was burning fiercely. Tho fire department depart-ment Fot the first report second-handed second-handed from the police department, and it was fivo minutes later beforo a direct alarm came In. As soon as the water was turned on to the building build-ing the firemen found that they had the wind to fight, which fed tho fire and lashc-d tho shooting flames Into a fury. The wind broke the force of tho four streams of ruior which wero toon playing on the building and tho fire department was unable to cope with the situation. Embers from the "Third Degree," which was bulk of lumber, dropped into the bleachers of the bicycle saucer sauc-er track. The coat sido of the bloach- ers was soon In flames. A stream of j water was turned on to the track I and with the 'assistance of a score of ; bicycle riders, who had by this timo ! been aroa?ed and rushed to the' track- : to save their wh-rols and training (qulpment, the track was saved. About ' 150 feet of tho bleachers was b irned out, but the track was not damaged, j The damaged bleachers will r? boxed In, tho track will Ye braced undr- neath and the bicycle race meets will j be held as us'ial. j Frederick Heath, the solo owner of the resort, did not have a cent of Insurance oi tho buildings The un- j dorwrlters raised tho rate so high j that it was Ipiiw'iole for Mr. Heath i to insure the lnilldin-?. Francis Heath, j tho manager, and hi? wife and six children wore liviug In the Salt Palace Pal-ace at tho rear. Mrs, G. E. Rockefeller Rocke-feller end two children also occmy rooms in the rear of the building. Thoy were hustled out of the build nK and most of the furniture was saved. Tho weinen nn! children were taken to the home of Harry Hoagren. manager of the Salt. Palace saucer track, where they wero cared for. Hoagren. who lives rear the Silt Talaco, was ono of th first to reach tho resort. With Francis Heath's assistance, as-sistance, he saved the office furniture and valuable papers and season contracts con-tracts which were in the main build-in build-in sr. Tho Salt Palace grounds which contain con-tain 10 acres, Is the last of Frederick Heath's fortune After looMng the situation over this morrlng, Mr. Heath i broke down compWe'y for a few min- 1 utes. With It, however, came the do-I termination of a man of younger i years. On the site of the Salt Palace he will btil'd a pavilion with a dome 1 shaped root, after the architecture of t the Saltalr pavilion, for dancing, intt- , sical concerts aud conventions. It will probably have a ground floor under un-der the pavilion for concessions and amusements. Heath expects to spend at least $50,000 In such a building. i The blcjcle track will not be touched touch-ed until after tho present season closes. Then it will bo remodeled with a gracdstand on !ho cast side as well as the west and seating capacity Increased to accommodate the patrons In rebuilding the resort. Mr. Heath says he figures on changing the arrangements. ar-rangements. It C. Condle, tho watchman at the resort, was tho first to discover the fire. He turned In an alarm, ho says, and then notified tho rollee. Tho, flames had then enveloned the "Third ' Degree" concession and the wind wa earning the yparks outo adjoining buildings. The "Third Decree" was owned by "White, Savage & Co. J. K. White, the. manager, had failed to pay for the electricity according to hi contract, and tho power was turned off in tho ndddle of last week by Fra-iels Ho:ith. tho manager. The eoncesiin lnd boon losln? money for the proprietor and had been rinsed down Arcerr'li'r to Heath and Hearren, nobodv hud ben In the place for two or three divs. White 'Yl-lted tho resort', y-'ordiv mornlnir and Md that hi loss would be about SI. 000. |
