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Show MANY HOMELESS IN BINGHAM FIRE Upper Section of Town Is Damaged; $100,000 Done by Fire Many Flee In Night Attire at Flame 6pread Rapidly; Four Hotels, Rooming House Destroyed; Emergenoy Call Brings 8. L. County Fire Equipment Salt Lake Three hundred and fifty persons were rendered homeless and famage of approximately 1100.000 lone in a spectatcular Are which wept through a section of upper Blng-sam Blng-sam early Friday morning. Through the combined efforts of the Bait Lake City, county, Bingham vol-, vol-, nnteer fire departments and the Utah Copper company emergency equipment equip-ment and the sourageous conduct of the Tolunteer firemen, entire Upper Bingham was saved from destruction. Two frame hotels and one rooming souse were burned to the ground and two brick hotels were completely gutted. gut-ted. The blaie originated In the rear of the Nick Plnos grocery store at 4:20 o'clock and ate its way rapidly in both (Urections. Albert Newman, drug !lerk In the Diamond bar, noticed the lames shooting from the grocery store ind sounded the alarm. So rapidly did the fire spread that accupants of rooming houses and imall canyon homes had no time to obtain ob-tain their belongings. Many fled in their night clothing, only a few stopping stop-ping long enough to grab a wrap to protect them from the chilly morning Jr. Five minutes after the alarm was turned in the volunteer equipment No. I and No. 2 arrived on the scene, but ven then the fire was shooting from the Venice hotel on the right of the Plnos grocery. The flames shot high Iri the air and leaped across the narrow nar-row Btreet and ignited the Copper and Bingham hotels. Faced with the task of fighting the blaze on both sides of the narrow, tortuous tor-tuous avenue, Acting Chief William Harris put In an emergency call for the Salt Lake county volunteer department. depart-ment. Before the county equipment after a record run of twenty-five minutes min-utes from Murray, arrived, the Bingham Bing-ham volunteers had successfully checked the blaie on the west side of the street. The new concrete exchange building of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company proved the obstacle ob-stacle that prevented the spread of the flames down the canyon. The buildings, the belongings, the proprietor and the estimated damage follow: Copper hotel. P. H. Pitches. $S.000. Bingham hotel, Andrew Gramalakis, JS.000. Modern hotel, G. S. Underbill, $25,-000. $25,-000. Venice hotel, Mrs. M. J. Contratto, $15,000. Pinos grocery and rooming house, Nick Plnos. $10,000. Henry Wise building and rooming honse, $15,000. Henry Wise home, $4000. Greek coffee house and pool hall, Mike Machkrikis. $3000. Chinese restaurant, $4000. The fire is believed to have been caused by an overheated coal stove. |