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Show Crystal Salt Co. Plant Wiped Out Salt Lake Fire, said to have Started when a transformer blew out in the south end of the structure, completely wiped oul the three-Btory plant of the Inland Crystal Salt company near Saltair at 7 o'clock Friday morning. Damage to the plant and the equipment was estimated es-timated at $500,000 by I. A. Clayton, Jr., general manager of the company. G. M. Stratton, manager of the plant, first discovered the flames shooting from the south end of the giant structure struc-ture and immediately phoned the alarm to headquarters at Salt Lake. Recruiting help from families thai live contiguous to the plant, men, women wo-men and children formed a bunkel squad and attempted to halt the blaze Their efforts proved futile and befor? the city equipment arrived the entire fra.-ne structure was ablaze. The county fire department, which had Just completed placing the Are al Elngham under control, was called tr the scene, and both depart merits play ed water on the Mazing structure, but It had gained too much headway tr be quen'h'd. Thre homes south of the plant wor dm;ii"-'l to the extent of $500 by th IntenRe he;it. Mr. Clayton sM that fifty men (irf employed fit the plant nnd they will h j put to work rebuilding the plant. The outlay was corn pb-l -y covered by In uranee, he stated. |