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Show Fire Burns Barn Contents; Large Goops are Saved In one of the most costly fires this year in Springville, a large barn and approximately 100 bales of hay and between two and three hundred bales of straw, belonging to Harry Lee, 1180 South Fourth East, were burned Friday afternoon. after-noon. Also approximately 50 sacks of wheat which had just been placed in the barn were partly destroyed des-troyed and considerable chicken brooder equipment as well as an electric cement mixer, were burned. About 20 sheets of aluminum, alum-inum, stored in the barn, were melted by the intense heat which scorched trees 20 feet away. at between ?1500 and $2000. There was no insurance on the barn or its contents. In her efforts to keep the blaze from spreading to the chicken coops, until the firemen arrived. Mrs. Lee held the lawn hose and while doing so, the heat from the blaze burned her arms, face and legs and she was given treatment for first degree burns at the doctor's doc-tor's office. The coops, all of which were insured were only scorched, and the roof on one buckled from the heat. Commend Firemen Mr. i and Mrs. Lee had only praise for the Springville firemen, fire-men, whom they said did a wonderful won-derful job in confining the blaze to the barn, and they desire to thank them publicly. They also appreciate the efforts of neighbors neigh-bors and others who assisted in putting out the fire. |