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Show FAITHFUL OLD FIRE HORSE PERISHES IN LIBERTY PARKBLAZl Four of Charley's Companions Compan-ions Also Lost Their Lives Last Night After serving tha city faithfully for ten years as a firefighter, Charley, formerly on ths big truck at firs headquarter, perished miserably In the flames thst destroyed de-stroyed the city stshle in Liberty park shortly before 11 o'clock last night. Charley and snot her former fire department de-partment horse, lfck, and two horses that were formerly uaed on th police patrol before the advent of the auto patrol pa-trol were destroyed In th flamee, aa well as ons other horse used by ths city park commlsaloner. The fire, which was of unknown origin, destroyed ths stable snd 'storehouse 'store-house In the park In spite of tha efforts of ths firemen from atatlons I and 7, under Assistant Chief ntsgerald. to save t he lm prisoned sn 1m sis and c hec k t he flame. Th fir waa discovered by the watchman watch-man at th park a few minutes before 11 o'clock. He made heroic efforts to save ths boraes and then, finding thla impossible, turned In ths alarm. When th firemen arrived th greenhouse and ths propagation house adjoining were threatened, but these buildings were saved by Ths prompt work: of ths fl rente re-nte n, who stretched 1 00 feet of hose in record tlm and soon had ths water playing play-ing oa th buildings. Nothing being eaved st the barn It waa at flrat supposed that th plsy-grounds plsy-grounds apparatus, purchased by the Parka and Playgrounda aasoclatlon had also been destroyed, but It was learned later that this equipment hsd been trana-ferred trana-ferred recently to th old mUl by th lake snd wss therefore out of th reach of the flame a But little of th machinery and tooia used to caring for the park was damaged. The barn was valued at $2M and Is a total loss. The content were vslued at llMin. Th firemen wer In service two hours. Th big bay horse, Charley, on of those destroyed, asw ten yam of active and efficient aervice In the fir depart- ; ment. He waa a handeoms animal and ! weighed about lftA pounds. He had been stationed at headquarters for nearly ten yes re and waa ons of ths three -horse team used on ths big truck In ths business busi-ness district. As truck horse Charley hsd witnessed all of the big fires In th buslneaa district dis-trict for the last ten years. He was In servic during the destructive Phort Line offlc fire In West Temple street, the Atlas block fire, the Redman Are, th Bennett Glass snd Pslnt company Are and the I X L furniture store firs. Charley was ons of ths moet Intelligent Intelli-gent horses In the service snd was never panic stricken, ss many horsea ar In th fare of th flames. The firemen at headquarters deplored his loss as keenly this morning ss though h bad been a human associate. |