Show r t I. I 9 tt t I pl f ti A AFire Fire Blasts A Acres ies Near Nea Kamas Three Summer Homes Damaged l I FlamM Flames which started started-at at or near ear earthe the Kamas City dump about noon nOOD s Sunday loft left about acres between be I tween tweeD Kamas Kamu and the Samak Acres area area blackened and de de- I be fore they were extin earl early Monday morning I Two T M J homes on o el at Samak Sam k kI I were WErt d dot destroyed and ami one was data darns aged There wad Ug no Insurance 1 Battled Blue Blaze 12 Hours Houri Crews Crewe of men from the UnIted Drilled Staten Forest Service Utah Fore For For- e try and abd Fire Control and other organizations and from nearby battled d the blaze for tor nt nearly 12 hours before bringing bringing bring It ing It the the flashes flames under control I Thirty Utah tah State prisoners were were deployed d at at the at-the the scene rene and men from Crom from oW View Wyoming wee e easo also aso used j 1 Dy By early Monday morning i wear weary fire tire fighters h had bad d brought I under control the wind whipped range fire left blackened I canyons and de desolated grass grau land landIn In la Its 11 wake It waa v. v all as- halted hailed moro more i j our otter before it reached Into toe tile I Forest to the net east o or 01 I IWarden Kamai Kamu j Warden Ken Maughan took a al I l lora baci trip around the scene o ol of the fire Monday aad ad said laId I j jh Dg h b believed believed II d the damage cover covered t about O acre acres oJ Like Explosion That fire was wall almost like an explosion he said aid ald About 1130 Sunda Sunday afternoon I 1 was at home and got three phone calls rail a without leaving lea the telephone while some someone someone one was pounding on the door And only two hours before we weere had rh checked Ek hn L I were we're IrE ere alwa always afraid of ot it I I The wind got behind It and md I hurried the fire along and a afire afire i fire that big creates Its own draft dratt too It U started on city land I anti and the city fire department was wall wallIn In Charge than e. e Then It looked like It might reach the Wasatch Forest and we ue I e took look over Oter and at 9 pm p.m. Sunday Wells Thursby of ot the 1 I State Forestry I Department took command He Ife was as aided by Howard How ard and Charles Wood Wood- bury burr ot othis hit staff Sixty or 70 workmen fought the flames away from Samak Lodge but the they could not prevent pre loss of two new cottages cottage The home of Henry Morten- Morten on of ot Salt Lake I City was destroyed but all the contents were tre ere remold in time I Tie Tte ta family was spend spend- In Int Ing the the- week end at the cottage I Totally destroyed w was WM as an unfinished unfinished un 1 finished c cabin owned by Richard Of ot Salt Lake City I A floor sub and an entire nUre load of ot I lumber umber owned by Dr Stephen Stephe Pickering of ot Salt alt Lake City went up In flames lames The usual miracle occurred when flames roared oared through h and pa past pant t a two two el leuel cabin owned by Its Kay Sacked Sackett ot Salt of-Salt alt Lake and left It only slightly singed Path of ot the flames was easily traced from the dump through I iris Elder Hollow across W Wide lint Hoi lew Ica to spread along both sides ot of the Mirror Lake Hoad Utah Route oute in n Deaver Heaver Creek Can Can- yon on g t Five F trucks from Kamas Kamas Coal Coal- Ille and nd the Forest Service battled bat lied the he fire tire In the lower reaches of the canyon canyon while men and antI some sume heavy equipment headed off oft the blaze nearer the Wasatch Forest boundaries Traffic along Mirror Lake Road IW was cutoff cut off to prevent accidents ard ard to give ghe fire fighters more nobility mobility of ot movement M Men n from the county sheriffs sheriff's office Utah State Road Hoad C Commission sl shops ps and The he Summit County Road De De- and from Kamas Kamal and the Ithe surrounding Summit County ar In halting the fire tire Utah Fish Joish and Game Came Commission Commis son don battled an shoot offshoot ot of of the tile lire fire threat threatening the State Fi Fish h Hatchery a u miles miles ilea least cast of Kamas |