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Show t Clarence Winegnr Home Damaged $3,000 By Fire, Wed. Night 1 After the severe electrical storm Wednesday night a little after 11 o'clock, fire broke out on the roof of former pounty commissioner, Clarence Winer-ar's house in Woods Cross, which destroyed the whole upper story together with practically practi-cally all of the contents of the upper up-per story, but most of the contents of the rooms on the ground floor, was saved. It is believed the lightning lightn-ing set the building on fire as the fire started on the roof near a chimney top which may have served serv-ed as a "lightning rod," to conduct the current to the shingles. The fire did not burn very rapidly as it had rained hard for about a half hour, but due to no available water, the Bountiful fire department was delayed de-layed in getting in action as a 1,-000 1,-000 feet of hos chad to be strung to a flowing well in the neighborhood neighbor-hood before pumping could commence, com-mence, however, the firemen prevented pre-vented th, fire from spreading to neighboring buildings. They were on the job about three hours. We failed to learn whether there was any insurance. Mrs. Winegar and other members of the family were home, a young son who, slept uppstairs had only gone to bed about ten minutes before be-fore the fire was discovered. A train on the O. S. L. going north, tried to giye the alarm bv the engineer en-gineer blowing his whistle practically practi-cally all the time while the train was running fjrom Woods Cross to Ccnterville. While this was not a spectacular fire nevertheless it was a destructive destruc-tive one. Mr. Winegar has a big ranch at Vendell, Idaho, where he spends much of his time. |
