Show another barn con sinned FOUR HEAD OF and one bow perish in the flames who is the incendiary the fire fiend who ever he may be h is again been at work and barn has been swept out of exie alt about 1230 lat la t night mrs S P eggertsen Egger taen jr was awakened by cry of fire and on glancing out of the window saw aflame shoot up from the barn which was located a few rods west of the residence on sixth street j one block south of the provo west co op mr john thompson the hired man was awakened and the alarm wae given the fire bell was rung and gome of the boys and citizens were soon at the engine house and a team waa seen red from ahe excelsior Exel livery stable the fire made rapid headway and before the department arrived on the scene the roof bad fallen in aad the whole structure wax a mass of flame everything in the barn except perhaps a few hundred pounds of hay and grain was destroyed ahn the fira had been extinguished extin guised the charred remains of four boraca and a cow lay among the rains the fire bad grown s rapidly that there had been no time to refas ahm aad the dumb brut had ben roasted to a crisp their during the progress of the fire ware pitiful to bear one of th horses especially presentad a horrible appearance when the fire had been extinguished LOSS the loss has been at no insurance the losers ara simon P eggertson jr provo coop co op eggerton Ege erton brothers and john thompson S P eggertson jr owned individually the barn and ft cow and several minor articles loss about 1000 the less of the west coop co op will approximate 1000 they ies two horses and wo sets of harness a delivery wagon two carts two re apers one binder fifteen cultivators and aiom hay and grain eggertson brothers lose about nine tons of baled hay biye tons of loose hay pounds of oats one cart two horses and one set of marneas har loss about john the hired nun lost his trunk containing seme clothing and over bonds and notes approximating in all about OF the fira undoubtedly was of incendiary origin at aboaf aso in the evening when mr E S heues re turned to bis home near the acne of the fira he found big wi fand children considerably frightened on enquiring as to th lehe was informed that two men had boon areundo abe house peeping in at the windows etc the man who first gave the alarm of fire as he rushed past Eggerts house has abot bean found in the language of andrew eggertson Egger teon hes the man w are looking for A few minutes before the fire started officer strong and night watchman west heard a sound like abe breaking open of a door which they supposed baxie from the west co op the store was abor hughly searched but nothing of a auspicious matuie was found the gantle men are abow of abe opinion anat abe sound cadt from the barn the crest number of fires which have recently in this city and the nature of them viz har and bara fires would indicate that sorna jack the fire fiend hag a spite against the city the officers are working quietly in the matter but of course their plans cannot yet be made public |