Show FIRE SMALL BOY AND MATCH START A BIG firepower poles are burned down and residences are threatened firemen fight hard from fridays standard Tho small boy and the cause of quite a destructive fire that raged in tho toot hills cast of the city all of last night and which caused considerable sid erable damage quite a few poles of tho utah light power company also of the telluride power company were burned and for a long time the flames threatened a number of homes in that vicinity early in the evening a telephone message took one of th chemical wagons from tho fire station to twenty fifth and tyler where it was claimed that the flames threatened a dwelling shortly afterward a gendral alarm catoe into the station from box 42 which took the whole of the cites fire apparatus to the neof the blaze for over two hours the fire laddies battled with the conflagration to pre spread to the adjacent terri jt would have beyond a doubt caused much damage to the property the area covered by the flames was about acres A favorable wind kept the fire to a great extent to the foot hills the wind also greatly assis ted the firemen in their work there were a langs largs number of volunteer also at work fighting the fire which by midnight was no longer declared dang arous chief graves of the fe department was seen attar his return from the fire and stated that he understood some small boys had deliberately started the flames in the dry grass just to see it burn and then shortly afterward turned in the general alarm he statsy that the alarm took all the apparatus to nab hill where it remained for two hours during which time the city was apparently without fire protection of any hind not only this but when the teams returned to the station they were so fatigued that they would have been almost useless for some hours the chief s of the opinion that this kind of work should in some way be stopped before it results in something of an extremely serious nature when the dry grass is ignited it readily travels to the green oak brush and the resulting combination Is one that Is hard to get under control chief browning of the police department part ment also visited the scene of the fire during the evening but found everything being done that was possible to prevent a further spread of the sides |