Show DESTROYED BY FIRE FIRD mrs marge arge 13 et woods residence burned to the ground on oil saturday mrs margeret Mai ANi geret wood residence caught fire last saturday about noon and was burned tc to the ground mr 3 C Xa marshall rhall win working in ill the field below the hie houte home when lie espied a dense smoke on the roof of the hallse between a chi chininea niney oil the centre of the main building 0 and a chimney on the kitchen at cirit he was unable to tell whether it was tile the smoke the chimneys chin ineys or wl colier it was cozino oozing 0 through the roof he decided cufal th at tile the roof was on fire and gave the alarm soon scott quite a large number of people gathered althou although 1 I 1 not so many as there would have heen been had it not licen been conference anti and market lay day some persons cli climbed up tip on the kitchen kit clen roof which is lower than the main building and others handed up ill water which hall had to be drawn f aiom I 1 oin a twenty foot well on an I 1 which was thrown onto tile main roof where the fire first appeared and where it was now raging when they saw that the fire had gotten beyond control the acting f firemen began almly ly to retreat and to carry out the hie goods of tile the house the rile crowd succeeded in iii getti getting tig everything out but stoves lacked legs and bedsteads were splintered so that the goods that were saved wore were greatly damaged the wain main building soon burned to the ground and the roof of the kitchen was also much duct I 1 damaged almost all of the window frames fracnes were pulled out of tile hie walls but will be of but little lillie use as they are all splintered the south end wall arid and a portion of the cast wall joining 0 rr it fell to tile the gru ground lind the main part of tile the house was two story A petition will wall stretched a cross across the buil building dinty 0 from cast to west a little more than half way from the south end this wall was built up to the square of the hie building with a chimney starling from the top of tile the centre of the wall and running up through 0 the rout roof A stove sove pip ran up till through all the tha floor on the north side of the partition wall anil and about two feet from the same ter inina Dating mi ting in the chimney the fire started 1 il I tile the roof or the upper ceiling 0 near this centre centra chimney I 1 is thought 0 by some that tile house was set on fire but every tiling thing 11 considered it seems thit that it would have been impossible for all any y one to have gone there still and got up ill bel between the second ceiling and tile roof and set fire slid and made their c escape IV without being noticed by mrs airs wood or miss aliss lil marshall arshall tile the latter was M mopping op pill 0 tile the kitchen floor mrs mr wood was cooking 17 dinner and hotd i just t t gone over to mr store w wan eai she heard thy the fire alarm there liaa hai been a rumor afloat that tile IVO woods oil s fail family lily ill had 1 I gotten I 1 a letar staling sta till n that they would be burned out it if they lid did net sell and move love away annay the ille irali of 0 r tins tile matter is ia that mr wood did aleacer a leller lib in ill july jill winch which was as dated july sta till that clr it site she and some of tile old a est esl sons of daniel wood would ile be burned out if they lid did not move love away aitay granting mr who has I 1 charge of mrs woods tai fat in ill n I 1 light to demain on oil the farm tin the remainder of this year but no loii longer er rile house was insured ili by tile llie continental insurance for which will aid tile the falm ly considerably in ill 0 getting 0 anither home it lias has not wen baen long 1019 rill c los lolli vill woods born barn and clacks were bui i d and julin juill woods wheat abre bet on oil fire the wheal shocked in tile field at ole 1 iu lenir iut y eight silo shocks cici were liun nd all fliter of these fires took place on oll ittu rilay airl in ili tile thy 41 1 I 1 I 1 ia it this is one reason why it is ili 1111 chiki tle the house n might allt have beell I 1 on oil fire |