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Show Tho barn at the state school for the deaf and blind and other buildings in the iioiitheast section .of the-city wore threatened with destruction by fire last evening, when a grass fire' broke out In the bushes and dry grass along tho river hank. ' 4 It was about 4 o'clock that the blaze , - was discovered and for several hours the liremen from the No. 2 station, nlded by a large delegation of volunteers, volun-teers, wore forced to (Tight the flames. The fire spread along the banks of tho river as far south as the Glen-wood Glen-wood saucer track and destroyed o. largo field of alialfa. In order to reach the fire with the city water it was necessary for the No 1 station to send 2,000 feet of hose to the scene and the low pressure of the water which prevails at this particular par-ticular time of the day hampered the firemen in their work. Thq blaze was gotton under control, however, hqfore It reached any of the buildings ' i it that sectJon The deuartmont' from No. 1 station mado a run to 2879 Grant avenue yos-terday yos-terday morning to put out a small fire which threatened the destruction of some outbuildings. The blaze was the result of dumping hot ashes against the side of a barn. |