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Show THORNTON HOME LICKED UP BY HUNGRY FLAMES Late Monday night William Thornton df DIG Post Htreet was awakened hy tho smell of smoke, and found that the house was on fire to such an extent tliat then1 was no lime lo save any thing aside fro': it n. little bedding and n tvw clothes,- liaslllv snatched when Iho children wure carried from their hods In the burning rooms. Mr. Thornton, in the rescue of hl family, fam-ily, received painful burns about tlio faco and hands. Tho housu was completely destroyed. |