| Show r s 9 ys 4 q Yo a t 3 a as a s az s s x Ji ie sz 4 Ja b y r. r roi 2 m s' s s i. i a. a y s r v x xa j x Fr t x f y ii r r 1 jy 1 Ut a s M 7 t i. i 1 J J o f ft k- k ki M Mf t nr w i 4 i X W i f o 7 nl 1 ix f t J oj 1 H w h J v t f 1 l lf f J P fo kJ v 21 V 4 7 Memoir of 01 1898 Catastrophe I Recalls Hardships ps Endured t Top Fire scene taken from Hillside Avenue top of Park City Main Street Fire burning toward lower end of town Bottom Middle of Park City Main Street Right Ruins of bank re red sandstone Marsac Mill in background ruins of bf Of City Hall and present library small building Kenneth Ryan home next Building on right old Marsac Office now site of f Utah Power and Light Office Buildings saved by water from flume top p of Rossie Hossie Hill water to Marsac Mill owned I by Anchor Mining Co l By RHEA HURLEY The old saying a picture is 19 worth a thousand housand words is most true In showing the complete ruin of the business section of Park City's business district In which places of business were destroyed only ashes left 75 I dwelling houses bouses on Rossie Hossle Hill HIlI 22 houses in Chinatown the entire entire en en- tire east and west side of Park Av Avenue nue to the David Keith home then then on to the Ferry iF-erry Smelter the Crescent Mill and Tramway- Tramway six immense horse barns and dozens of small barns barna storehouses storehouses store store- houses and many other small buildings fed the flames Jmes which covered the entire bottom and parts arts of the walls of the canyon Park Park- City Is situated InThe In The fire created its own draft I I and flames rushed down the narrow narrow nar nar- I row gulch like fire from a blow torch I Insurance carried by toy home owners own ers and businessmen will not cover cov cov- I er quarter one-quarter of the million dol lar loss I The fire had been discovered I too late to be controlled by the fire tire lighting fighting equipment P Park rk City c 1 owned remember owned remember this was way back bade In 1898 I jV iI fIlhe shifting wind carried Jed fire c brands hundreds of of fe feet t t to to- to set seta j new fires Irea raging V Water ter Used from Flu Flume Flume Flume- rf t When It became apparent th ther i 1 fire could not Abe ibe controlled employees em era x of the Marsac Mill eatto set eat setto to work to save the big mill mm using water from a large wooden flume to be seen in the Che picture at the tho r top of Rossie Hill Hill Hm Finally three houses owned by Lou Petit Joe Dye and John Gib son eon south of John Harwoods Harwood's c concrete home boards s J Jing two story board board- boardIng Ing and rooming house on Park Avenue were blown up with grant giant powder and the flames brought under control j The Union Pacific depot and and Kimball Brothers large livery a a stable escaped the flames Had Hatt they burned the whole lower pa part part part- t of ot Park City's residential district t would have burned also also Eley Motors now occupies the the- the site of the KImball Bros Dexter i Co Continued on Page ai EIb i i 1 1 x P Park r City Fire Continued from rage 1 livery stable ground and the that Where Aunt Rhoda Snyder ha hat had boardIng boardIng board one of ot the first bIg tig miners miner's m Ing houses right on the corner comer o of Park Avenue Oliver Lockhart F F. F A. A McCarty Dr E. E P. P LeCompte J J. J M M. M Loch Lock hart t J J. J T. T and severs severe several hers chers were more or less burned Vat lout not one life lite was lost The Salt SU Lake Herald with n no eh e printed The Park Record until a new now plant could be built Tents Set Bet Up Help quick and generous iron from ut do cities clUes and the surroundIng surround lag Ing county came for devastate devastated Park City and a large and effi eW dent cleat relief committee was forme formed to make sure no one suffered People with homes saved Iron from th the th fire tire took In less fortunate fortunat friends and relatives Tents Tent Were weri erected reeled and building material materials soon on the spot before the the ashes asha were scarcely cold old and Park Par City began to to be rebuilt The Park Record set up bus bual busl D ness hers right aw away away y in a big tent tent 01 o on Park City's Main Street t and rebuilt re rebuilt rebuilt re- re built the building occupied by Iby Th Record for tor many years until th the paper was printed by toy The Moran Mor can an County Count News Morgan Utah Park City residents were Vere penniless and homeless but the giving Up tip p 01 or leaving the clean cleanest t a and d best gov med orned mining camp in Utah never never entered their thelt heads h ads The sturdy t brave souls rebuilt the homes and the business houses now being oc oc- occupied cu led by present day and we never miss mIes an opportunity t to stress this outstanding fact to the tha many arany tourists and visitors to reen day f y Park City now fast becoming a II four reason recreation tion center I wish I knew what these same hard working solid citizens ol of Park City would would think of the tha changes huges being made in this area Park City at the present time la Is having haTing trouble with property lines as M markers used d before the Wg Mg fire were completely destroy ed The city olty had to be B hastily re reo built as snow falls taIls in Park City In IA early September September this this year It has Jau fallen In June B believe elleve It or orDot not Dot and aDd consequently the buildIng build build- lags Ing erected were not as tine line as many of those destroyed by the fire tire and Humor Things ae are dated In Park at Oty by the before and and after after th the tire lire tire and many Important events are Ire remembered In this manner It n was 18 a t terribly cruel Wow blow bl W to befall betaU the good Industrious citizens of good old Park City tad oad many families left to make new Dew homes elsewhere The fibs fire tire started in the building on the tho site of the present Handle Bar Tavern on Main Street There are many tales of heroism ant and and pathos related about the fire buthe but bu the great blessing was the fact no lives were lost In it and Park Park- ties always quote this fact One tale W which I have always enjoyed and believe to be true l I having known Fred Jennings Jenning's WasI was the fact that Fred a very IVery fine tine tineI I piano player sat down dow 1 at a piano plana which had been removed removed from a II I dwelling and left in the street and played Therell Be a Hot Hoi Time In the Old Town Ton Tonight a tune used In the big political al rallies of that day I Fred was a character and he hewell may well have done It Truly It was a hot time alright affright but Park City rose above it and andUs andIs Us lis Is still going strong We have had other fires but o of no comparison to the one ot of 1898 that almost wiped us off the tho map Fire is still a great hazard In Park City and citizens are great ly 11 fearful of It but go on their busy peaceful 11 way of life Ufa pray pray- praying ing that such a calamity may Mal never befall us aga again n. n Old timers t In relating events at at the time of the fire seem seem toI to I remember some foolish Coolish things which Ch occurred at the time such I as throwing bre breakable kable things out of windows of-windows and carrying feather of pillows down stairs They do not moan and cry about bout the the big fire passed and We still live on on |
