Show THE BIG BLAZE Further Details of the Conflagration Confla-gration The Origin Still Shrouded in Mystery Supposed Incendiary Work The Loss Will Fall Below 100000 The Explosions HavocPlate i Glass at a Premium The Losers and Their Losses The calmer and more detailed estimate of the losses occasioned by the terrible fire of Thursday morning morn-ing places the total loss in the vicinity of 100000 perhaps a trifle lesswhich is as near the loss approximated ap-proximated by the HERALD yesterday yester-day morning as may be Naturally enough it was the topic of conversation conver-sation on Thursday to the exclusion of all other subjects and while any number of versions were given out and any number of statements made by any number of persons all of amore a-more or less unsatisfactory character charac-ter nearly all terminated with the avowal that it must have been the work of an incendiary It is difficult to imagine what could have induced any being wilfully to start the fire It is alwaysa thing which honest and just people can never explain why any being should wan tonjy destroy property and the cause is especially unfathomable in the case of General Clawson a man who is universally esteemed He Is not known to have any enemies he can have none for the reason that just and liberal to an unusual degree he could not pursue a course calculated to injury to any person and for that reason no one could feel disposed to wrong him unless insane or at heart a villain The theory of spontaneous combustion combus-tion is absurd for there was nothing which could cause spontaneous combustion intimations that there the-re was communicated from some structures in the vicinity are also abandoned as unworthy of being entertained and as there was no fire in the place itself all are forced to return to the suggestion of incendiary in-cendiary There are two reasons why it might have been the work of an incendiary There are any number num-ber of low vicious beings who from their craven hearts delight in burning from a wanton wicked spirit or it might have been started by an organized gang desirous during the absence of a portion of the fire department attracting general attertion in a certain quarter quar-ter while they might enter other places of business and pilfer and rob If the latter was the object then from all that can be learned proved futile for the thefts that were committed were of a yery trifling character After the explosion ex-plosion however there were several rather determined attempts to enter a number of the stores by crowd of people The Coop was soon surrounded by a mob who started to go in and but for the most decided opposition would have forced an entrance and this once secured it is impossible to estimate the extent of the pillaging that would have been done The same is true of Hardy Brothers Burton Bur-ton and of a number of other places One fellow was caught reaching through a broken window in Mr D O Calders store and helping himself to what was hanging hang-ing there But so effective proved the alarm that the streets were filled with people before the explosion explo-sion occurred and it was difficult for those with thieving propensities propensi-ties to operate successfully especially especi-ally when the conflagration illuminated illum-inated the streets until they were as bright as day As near as can be estimated there the-re started in the middle of General Clawsons wagon and farming implement im-plement department and had every article been saturated with kerosene the blaze could not have ascended or licked up everything before it with greater rapidity In three minutes after the alarm of Are was started from the HERALD oifice composing rooms persons were on the ground and the work of taking out articles had commenced Five minutes later the flames were at the front of the shop and those who were attempting to save some of the wagons and buggies were compelled to retreat At this time it was not known that any powder was in the shop and therefore this knowledge did not restrain people from working at the spot The whole place was an assured wreck before any idea of the presence of powder entered any persons mind and it would not have been possible possi-ble to have saved another spoke if there had not been an ounce on the premises The next place which the rescuing rescu-ing party broke into was the Council Coun-cil House the corica and dome of which was now on fire and a few j articles as mentioned on Thursday monin were saved At this time I alto Savages Art Bazar began to I burn and the doors were burst open I ana a stream of hard workers entered en-tered and began to carry out articles arti-cles to the opposite side of the street The firemen were therewith 1 there-with water aud no thought was given to attempting to save Mr I CUwsona place which was one mass of flamesand which was being consumed with incredible rapidity Then information that a quantity quan-tity of powder was stored in the I place was given and rapidly communicated com-municated to people in the Council House and others thereabouts The street was at once cleared and with the exception of perhaps two personsno one was on South Temple street was within half a block of the place when the explosion took place To the timely information given by Mr Clawson is due the fact that no one was fatally injured for pieces of red hot iron and burning burn-ing timbers were thrown quite a distance and with a velocity that must have done fatal harm if they had come in contact with any one It happened that the persons working in Mr Savages store were not aware ot the impending explosion explo-sion and therefore were taken completely com-pletely unawares Some were knocked downsome and bruised a little but the only person very seriously injured was Tom Dozier who was working like a beaver in the rear of Mr Savages establishment establish-ment and not only received the full force of the shock itself but was also burned with part of the powder He was cut terribly over the head and hands with fragments of flying glass and led to Dr Benedicts office in a pitiable condition where he was pasted up with sticking plaster and where he still remains Toe most serious injury is to his spine but the character of the harm has done is not yet fully known Hi injuries are not of a fatal nature na-ture though quite severe The effect of the explosion was to cause an abandonment of the Art Bazar and everything else was given up to the flames which by this time had already rendered further fur-ther work inside unsafe From this time the fire was under control There was no hope for the Council House nor for the Bazar nor the little wooden places adjoining but the streams of water were plied vigorously and any further extension exten-sion of the flames rendered improbable improb-able The streets were filled before the explosion took place but the force of the concussion while it did not even shake the chimney off the Council House which was within two rods of the powder and did not not move chairs within three rods and failed to lift a wagon still closer was still so great that it reached houses a great distance away and brought people out of their beds from every quarter of the city who rushed in breathless haste to the scene of the fire which could plainly be seen a distance of twenty miles All along the east side of Main street beginning with the Coop and extending to and including includ-ing the Deseret National Bank Corner the sidewalk glistened with plate glass and was literally covered to the depth of an inch in places A number of places on the west side were also injured but the damage was far from being as great as on the opposite side Along First South street also considerable damage was done and down Main street as far as Joslin Parks places were picked out one here and one there where the plate glass was of largest dimensionsand the glass destroyed Lamps and crockery crock-ery ware were destroyed and panes of glass broken in places quite a distance away Had it not been for the damage to glass and to the residences resi-dences that were situated in the vicinity the explosion would have been a benefit for it helped to destroy the effect of the fire by scattering it a great deal Of course for a time there was danger of other places being set on fire from the fly ing embers thrown considerable distances by the explosion but though these were quite numerous they were all extinguished with comparatively trouble jrornonsor tne Art jjazar fell but the Council House walls remained re-mained intact unmoved either by the explosion or by the flames The residence of General Wells was considerably con-siderably damaged the doors being blown open and unhinged wardrobes ward-robes and bureaus moved out into the middle of rooms the casings torn out and plastering loosened and so on The dwelling house of Dr Jos Richards was also seriously Injured the windows and sash being demolished curtains torn and furniture fur-niture broken A list of the damages dam-ages as approximated is given below All through the fire good order was maintained and when the firemen fire-men were once fairly at work thev made it count with telling effect All the persons in business will resume I re-sume but perhaps not in the same places It is not known whether the Council House in which many church papers and records were keptand which together with montr arrifloc nf fninifina of n J uu Ia 1 destroyed will be rebuilt or torn down The probabilities are that a fine block will be erected on the spot of this disastrous conflagation which will be a source of pleasure though one can but regret that it has been preceded by great loss to so many excellent menThe men-The Museum had a marvelous escape es-cape and that unappreciated repository repos-itory of many rare and valuable relics for the first time in its career was favored by fortune It has been so severely left alone that even the explosion did not choose to disturb it and a few panes of glass destroyed embraces the loss sus tained by it The explosion was of black powder not giant and was stored in a fireproof arrangement on wheels and did not explode until the flames had enveloped it for a period of fifteen or twenty minutes Dy which time it must have been almost red hot The names ol those more seriously seri-ously injured are Charles Fever i year arm broken and bruised about the head John Cardell and ll chard Cardell bruised badly the latter being rendered temporarily tem-porarily insensible for a time Geo Lawrence cut by glass George Am rib broken and a number of others more or less badly bruised including Geo Arbogust Charles Auer Henry Skonberg Richard Roach Mars Lauren Minnie Manfred Man-fred and Gail Burnett The loss by the fire is given as follows B B CIlIwEon30fOO in 23 000 R Dye 3000 no ma Mr ficreca 800 II Mr Rawlins 100 Sornnssn Carlquiet 6000 inc3000 r B SI8irq 12000 ins Si 000 Elias Morris 6000 DO inr Council House 10000 JoflH Parry 1000 MM E B Wells 150 f H Arnold 750 Total69800 30000 There are doubtless a few other losses which probably come under the above heading but 570030 will probably cover the entire amount so lost The d ama e caused by the explosion covers a wider range and can not be given in satisfactory detail de-tail but the following is a fair list and the figures are as near accurate as can be arrived at ZO M I 350000 Bcopar is Edredge 300000 Win Jennings Sons 1000 o I S BChards lOOOoo H Dinwoodejj 1000 00 I IUe di Boundy SOJloa Hardy Bras Burton 600 00 Bartcn Company 500 00 D hmes 400QO D H Welle 40000 atudeb ker Bros 4000Q Assembly Hall 300 oo Tabernacle 300 00 U 0 Railway Co 25000 Deseret National Bank 25000 U P Express Office 250 on 1 Z 0 M L Drag Dept 550 00 Gallo House 250 00 Thirteenth Ward Coop 200 On Mrs W B Wilkinson 200 fo J L 8 A D Young 200 00 Careless Craiall 200 00 D 0 Calder 10000 0 0 Aamui eo 100 00 Valley House 200 00 P W Maden 30000 Contributor Office 150 GOP GO-P W Madien Co 100 00 Mr M V Youngs residence 200 00 Mrs Hopwood 200 00 Jolin Park 200 00 He = ch Ellerbeck 100 00 J 0 Cutler 200 00 Mrs B Dye 15 00 Solomon Brothers 75 00 B ules Miller 75 00 H S Waldron 7500 Young Brothers 60 00 Donelfcon Brothers SO 00 W Sadler 5003 0 S Walsh 5000 John Dames 5000 W C Morris 50 10 Coop Furniture Camps 5000 Deserat News Office 20000 Tithing Office 50 00 Herald Office 30 00 J Baumgarten 3500 Goldsmith Co 25 00 John Squire 25 00 Zions Savings Bank 25 00 Mrs Burrows 25 00 Watson Brothers 75 00 Other places 250000 Total 20370 00 It is therefore evident that S1CO 000 will amply coyer all the losses that may have been incurred |