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Show FIRE DESTROYS WHEELER HOME Fire completely destroyed the home of Ben Wheeler in the Springville Spring-ville Fourth ward Sunday afternoon. after-noon. The damages to the building and household furniture, estimated at about $4,000. The fire apparently was started by a spark fromthe chimney falling fall-ing into the dry snlngles on the east side of the roof. A heavy oast wind soon fanned the flames over the entire roof of the building. Mr. "Wbeler find his family were sitting in the house at the time and knew nothing of the fire until Huel Averett, a neighbor, paw the flames shooting into the air and ran over and notified the occupants that the house was on fire. The alarm was turned in for the Springville fire department, but the fire had made such headway under the heavy wind that the roof was practically gone before the family had gotten out of the house and by the time the fire engine arrived, any effort to save what was left was fatal. Only a few personal effects were carried out and saved. There was no insurance. |