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Show SALT ills A DESTRUCTIVE EifiE Salt I-ake. Oct. 24 Fire, developing develop-ing from unknown causes in tho basement of the Daniels theater building build-ing In South State street, partially d(Mr..yd the playhouse, early thl morning, ruined over $lu,ooo worth of stock of the Daniels Clothing company com-pany and drove Inmates f the Bungalow Bun-galow hotel to the street in their ulL'ht ckithea. The total damage Is estimated at i;o.(ifhi, with Insurance placed at about $2r.nnn For a time the flames threatened to get beyond control of th? firemen, and more serious consequences seem- i ed Imminent; but. with nersistent work on the part of the firefighters, the fire. was brought under control before ?, o'clock. The lirst floor of the theater was practically destroyed, the rafters and underpinning of a space ?) feet in diameter being totally burnt. Th stage and scenery were destroyed. The rear partitions of the ladies' and boys' department and of the men's department were burned out. Everything Every-thing in the basement was ruined. Shortly before 1 o'clock the Bungn-low Bungn-low hotel, which occupies the second and third stories of the Daniels building, began to fill with a thin smoke, which suddenly thickened. Mrs Nellie Campbell, who Is landlajy at the Bungalow, attempted to make an Investigation. In the stairway leading down to the theater lobby she encountered a huge cloud of smoke. Dashing back into the hotel, she aroused all the inmates. Meanwhile the attention of policemen police-men on the South State street beat bad been attracted by smoke rising from the building and they turned In an alarm of lire. Inmates of the hotel ho-tel had begun scattering to the street, carrying clothing and valuables in their arms, while they were bat partially par-tially clad. Numerous guests of the Bungalow remained In the hotel so long that the stairways leading Into the theater lobby became too fl lie J with smoke and they had to bo brought out of the front windows ou ladders. Fire Chief W. H. Glore and his assistant, V. L. Fitzgerald, responded respond-ed with all the apparatus from fire headquarters. The fight against the Haines In the basement was made from tho front. Half a dozen lines of hose were laid by the fire department and water wat-er played on the fire while It was still young, but It rose into the theater thea-ter in the rear of the building and. after burning through the floor, began be-gan to make rapid hedwny. Four lines of hose were withdrawn from the basement, two-of them being directed di-rected into the theater from the front and two from the rear. After an hour of hard fighting, flames in the theater, which practically practical-ly destroyed the fixtures and furnishings, furnish-ings, were under control. But fire had been spread from the basement Into the men's, ladles' and bovs' departments depart-ments of the Daniels Clothing company. |