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Show CLOSE TO TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND LOSS-IN ' BLAZE LOCAL IMPLEMENT CONCERN IS HIT QUITE HARD H Hard Work of the Fire Department iH Boys and Laek of Wind At the iH Timo Saves Adjoining Property H Threatened Cars of Merchandise Romoved to Safety Zone H Fire of h rather mysterious orlgi" H on Inst Moiulny sflenionn eomplstely H wiped out s frstne ami intnelsel wurts H house building belondng lo the Con- H solldNted Wagon sml Msehlne eun- H iwnv, together with contents, sit listed H in the reiir of that concern's Soutk H Ninth street tdace of bust n on nnd H nlongside the Detrt'eT nnd Itio Grande H tracks Stored in the piece wore H mowers, wngims, impleHients snd olli- 'ssbibibH er similar merrhMiidise- to tlm value H of perhsH twenty-five tlmumtud ebd- H Inrs The exact lots will mit bktMWH H until the Imhim' here hiiiI hi Salt Uk H City sre llirough checking etcch other. H Tho building nnd mereliHiidlse were iH of courw' well insured. Adjuster ftir H the comiHtnicit tnlereeled Hre expect- H twl hiiv time' The blnxo whs first ilnnoivered by h Deliver and lllo Orandu freight trittn H crew that was doing some work Iu tit local yurds. The chcinlcitl engluo wns prompt lo arrive and sueceeded In H confining the fire to the bunted H strueture, besides exIlngulshittK n H blare that wns under good hendwny H in the nnif nnd nt the reor of the H iiitiln store building A fnime stable , H and some sumlter bttlldl'igs in the tM rear of Main stnet proarty were burned IsHtses on these nre small. H While the department was there right mH on tho dot after the alarm had gun fLH In, it appears theto wus eonicidenitile tl confusion mnong thu boy-s operntlng sl thu hose because of its being hvptinsi H wrong end to. The wind was in favor H of the fin men. For n time it looked H ns if the Savoy Hotel unci ndjaecut rLLv buildings might go. 'M I. F Johnson, district manager of ll the Consolidated, wns hImkuiI from t lie H citv Monday and will not b bom H from Grand and Kan Juan eountiM until toiiHirrow iHtrhups. In the mean- time those iu charge of Ihe liuintw-i have no idea of the loss Or, if they iH do will not express it it opinion. Ihe stock nt Price is altwtys very htmvy M becHiise of this being n distributing !1 Mltit for n large section south, exist (H and north. Some hsve txprosscMl the rH opinion that a msing railroad iwi- glue set fire to I null under the ware- H hoiiKii building. Others believe it U H hifvo boon the nwult of cnwcwxl m tle- , jH feetive wiring. lsH Sixteen cars of miocellaiifo-uH nwr- H (hnudihc with values running i.ito H Ihoiistiuds ot dollars tloso by toe fire H wus taken to n sfetv souu by the H train crew that gave the itlarm. Hut H for this the ntllnnnl eomtHiuy would B have hud it big o as well. A repro- situtiUive of the claim dtqiartiHent of H Ihe eoiiiHny wits here yostorday in- H vestigHliug whether hiiv blame fr H the eotiflagratiou Httnihes to the rail- iH |