| Show tho the 3 oswen men fire one of the driest fires firca of this damp age was that which reduced the barn bar and fourton four ton haystack of mr john cowen bowen of the second ward to ashes tuesday e avenins ev v e enins m og between the hours of 10 arid and midnight the fire was first discovered co vered by race whitney ex local reporter on tim JOURNAL bert rhodes and steve newman who were at the time serenading sere in that vicinity and who at once gave the alarm the fire department was promptly Drou aptly on the spot but when the hose was stretched and proper connections made it was discovered that the pump was out of order and entirely useless as they would the firemen benien could not tret get a drop ol 01 of water through the ho hose seand and the flames we were re left unmolested in their destructive tive work the cart cutter and sulky the horse and cow were all al gotten out safely so that nothing but the stables stabled and hay stack were destroyed mr bowen ebli mates his bis loss los at with no insurance there were a number of barns in ii close proximity to the one which burned hut but fortunately the night was a with no breeze bee stirring so that no damage further than as stated above was do done mr II of the fire de dea apartment part ment was seen next morning 0 by a reporter and stated the cause of the pumps refusing to work to bo be the dryness dry ness of its valves valve sand and any body who knows anything 0 about it knows that one laboring under the of a dry valve is really performing an up hill work As to what caused the f fire of course no one knows it Itis is reason ably believed however to be the work of boys playing run sheep run and hide and seek as their shouts were heard all around that neighborhood arid and mr dowen bowen says when he first saw the fire he be also saw two boys running from the table eatable v where here they ma may y have been hiding and Io possibly sibly smoking ilig |
