Roosevelt Standard | 1924-12-31 | Page 1 | Salt Lake City Has Destructive Fire Christmas Day

SALT LAKE CITY HAS destructive FIRE CHRISTMAS DAY on christmas day salt lake city firemen fought a most destructive tire fire which for hours raged in the hooper eldredge building doing an estimated damage ot of at least to building and merchandise chief william bywater and his brave firemen suffered untold hardships as they worked in the intense cold the walls of the build building 9 when the fire was finally conquer conquered e d were a sheet of glistening lee ice la in 1891 the same building was completely gutted by tire fire and in january uary when the temperature stood at ai 14 above zero firms occupying the building were the coop co op furniture co barton and co hyde and griffin west 1 ern shoe and dry goods co the upstairs rooms were occupied principally by attorneys and mining men