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Show fire at Fountain Green. At abont 9, p m Sunday , night the residence of Fountain Green were startled start-led by the ringing of the bell on top of the school house.aud the cry of fire! fire! (in investigation it was found that tho residence of the late Rasmus Anderson was on fire. Every body rushed to the scene of conflagration ready and willing will-ing to render what assistance they might. . The house was two story frame building was soon a mass of flames and iu loss than half an hour was burned to the ground most of the furniture in the lower story was saved while everything in the npatairs wa3 burned. Shortly before the tire was discovered an extra amount of fuel was put in the stove in one of the bedrooms upstairs. In t'.c course of a few minutes one of the members of the family went np to see if everything was all right and discovered dis-covered that the room was full of smoke on opening the bedroom door the flames shot forth and in the course of a very few minutes the entire building was ablaze. No one was seriously injured although several were somewhat cut and bruised in their hurry to save what they could. The loss is estimated at $2,000. It was all the people could do to keep the residence of Mr. Leslie's which is located across the road from being burned. It caught on fire several times and for a while it was a question wheth- I er it conld be saved or not. ' I |