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Show BLIND MAN BARELY GETS OUT OF BURNING HOUSE WITH FAMILY (Special to The Telegram.) MURRAY, April 23. August Larson and his family were aroused early this morning by a fire in their little house. The father and mother catching up the children, rushed from the home just before be-fore the roof fell In and the building collapsed. col-lapsed. Nothing waa saved, the mother, father and four little children escaping in their night clothes. Even the little money that had been saved by the father was destroyed with the house. The case Is a pitiful one. Larson is blind In one eye. He can barely see to get around his little truck wagon to attend at-tend to the peddling business, lie is also partly paralyzed, and while following his vocation as a peddler, he has had to call upon bis oldest boy, 12 years old, to assist his in selling his produce. |