IJUHE CRASS RUE THREATENS B16 LOSS i - Small Army Engaged in Prevent-i Prevent-i 1 ing Destruction of Grain ' :v and Hay. ' ! I f Special to Tho Tribune. J OGDEN. July 10. For four hours, U , beginning this forenoon nt 1J :30, the t Ogden lire department, sonio of tho police po-lice foreo, and all of tho inh.iljilaiita of Burch Creek nnd Ttivordale, tho l southern precincts of Ogden, fought a L fiorco grass and brush lire. Tho de- 'J pnrtmont did not take tho apparatus, nut went down to tho fight to savo property tvith tho most primitive tools, I and finally beat it out. Tho fire was started by cinders from I a defectively equipped locomotive on I H 'ho Oregon Short Line. Tho blaze I i started in the June crass, which at this ' season of the year 'is ripe for fire, and i, in which a lire, when once started, 1 spreads rapidly. High on the bench . south of Burch' Greek it burned fiercely and soon communicated itself to the , 4 brush, and threatened the ripe graius. sl A biff area of growing and ripened ryo , was burned; and a section of ripo d I wheat of 300 acreB was cut into by the forks of firo, entailing a heavy loss. I Only tho efficient efforts of tho forces I 'J that went to fight the fire, and the i v work of the residents of Jtivcrdale and I ISiirch Creek, prevented the blaze from j crossing the Weber river and wiping I out tho haystacks, granaries nnd barns 3 of Rivcrdale. (i Orrin Had lock of the Ogden polico . n force wont down on horseback and or- Ijj .ganized a fire guard force, with tenms I and plows. All this time tho wind was i strong from tho south, and tho fire was 4 rapidly approaching rich grain fields )l and other farm property. The smoke jj blow into Ogden so dense that the nt- I mosphero became a red-3'cllow glow, l 'and the odor from tho fire was plainly evident to the nostrils. ,v iladlock's brigade plowed mnny fur- Ui rows on the south sido of Burch Creek. !j ' for a stretch of three miles, from enst jj' to west, and this suppressed the fire. U The area burned, however, was threo j, miles east and west and two miles ; south to north. Tho estimato of dam- ii age to property will be made later. Tho " " people of tho city pesthouse had a close i t;' call for their lives and only for the '' eflicient ffforts of Chief Paine and his J firemen the buildings would have been consumed. ij At G:30 this morning the departmont 1 i liad a long run to tho Ogden creani- , !J ory, north on Washington avenue, ' where imperfect insulation of the elce- I trie wires had started fire in the re- 3 frigcrator, where 40.000 pounds of but- f j lor wero stored. Thero was very little l(' damage to tho structures and the fire , was extinguished by tho chemical, but; . !' the storage of butter was supposed to ' 'f bo damaged by smoke.