| Show straw stack burned monday morning the fire bell sounded its rude alarm and all the people on the streets luched to the residence of george pard bodda started out with the city fire pump attached by a rope to the horn born of his siddle saddle and pulled it as fast as his horse could run to the dark clark coli conar r where eherd lie he wai relieved by charley having a fresh afresh horse kept up the rapid pace to the scene of the conflagration I 1 he people responded nobly to the call and over fifty f men were fighting the fire alf fifteen teen minutes after the alarm was sounded tho fire was in a stra straw w stack and proved to bo be very obstinate after af ter fighting the fire for several hours it was waa decided that the best plan was to remove the fence and allow the stack to burn down this required all day and the fire was almost extinguished at midnight though it required several hours tuesday morning to put out the fire fortunately the damage was confined to the ali e straw stack the cause of the fire was a little girland a stolen match |
