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Show FIRE CHIEF NARROWLY ESCAPES SMASHUP The tomup condition of the pavement at the Intersection of Becond south and Main streets nns Responsible for a blqwout of a rear tire bn the private car Of Fire Chief BywatOT yesterday afternoon. after-noon. A rup was being made to the Mercantile building, Third South ,nd Main streets, tire having started In a manicuring parlor on the fourth floor. For a moment it looUe, at though the automobile might turn turtle In Its mad wrestle with the chUCKholeS. but It rushed on. running the lust block with a flat wheel. All Of Ibe apparatus r-" ii bv without accident, tjut most of (he vehicles were fprccd to lake the wrong Bide of the street to avoid the dHii;et-ous dHii;et-ous ground. The fire hail consumed s f,air of ae curtains and lieen Btoppd in its progress by water from bowl tap. sprayed through a shampooing iio--r. when the flrsmeii arrived, |