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Show 'fjsre Destroys fern -At Saucer Five Ranch Fifty Tons of Hay Burn As Volunteer Fire Fighters Fight Blaze Fire, presumed to have resulted from spontaneous combustion wrecked havoc late Wednesday-afternoon Wednesday-afternoon at the Saucer Five ranch, Central, property of Mr. and Mrs. Stinson Ward. The loss reported late Wednesday evening included 50 tons of hay, a large bam and some farm equipment. The main volume of the hay was stored approximately five weeks ago and some may have been a little under dry. No evidence evi-dence of steaming had been detected de-tected by the farm hands, and other loads of hay were added Wednesday from the recent cuttings. cut-tings. Mr. Ward and his helper, Max Cannon are riding the range for their cattle. Other workmen were loading hay in the fields, and Anson B. Call, county agent and Charles Pickett of St. George, were with the stockman, Harry Nelson, at the farrowing pens, when Mr. Call turned toward the hay barn just as it broke into flames with the force of an explosion. ex-plosion. Central farmers responded at once and the entire man population popula-tion came speedily from Pine Valley, forming bucket brigades and doing their utmost to check the blaze and prevent the flames from reaching the other barns which house the cattle, pigs and horses. The wind was reported low and in the best direction to aid the fire fighters, who had the blaze under control when Mr. Call and Mr. Picktt returned home Wednesday evening. |