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Show THREE IX ONE SIGHT. Provo Makes Her Same in Fire Circles. The Street R. R. Motor Causes Two and An Overturned Lamp the Other. Monday evening about 5:30 o'clock an alarm of fire was sent to the Courthouse, Court-house, and immediately the tire bell was rung. In a very few minutes the hose cart was on the way, followed by the fire engine and a crowd of anxious people. Towards the northeast part of the city everyoue went, and the fire was soon found to be in two places, one block apart, the first beinsr the stable and corral of David Meldrum, the other the stable of Mr. Bennett. The engine stopped at a ditch close to i Meldrum's place, and the hose ran out. Some difficulty was experienced in gt-t-tinsr enough water down the ditch. A bucket brigade hail been formed befoie be-foie the fire department arrived, which j saved the large hay shed from being j consumed. The men had to w rk i hard to save it, but when the engine j started to pump water, it was but a ; few minutes1 work before all danger ! was over. ! The attention of the boys was then ; turned to the smouldering embers of Bennett's stable, and that w as soon put nut. Meldrum's loss is trifling, as I the hay covering of the stable was ail j that was burned. The stable and corral cor-ral of Mr. Bennett, worth about $150, 1 was totally destroyed. The tire originated from the sparks flying from the street railroad m-tor. Credit is due the men who turned out and saved Mr. Meldrum's bay shed from catching lire,' as the wind was blowing the ilames directly on to it, but the combined efforts of the men checked them until the firemen arrived. What came near being a serious ac- ; cident occurred on Monday nizi.t about ten o'clock in Bee's millinery store. Mrs. F. F. Bee and Miss Edith Bee were sitting at a small ri-nnd table in the store, the latter trimiuin a hat. The lamp on the table hai.-j pened to be resting on the lace, and in trying to pull the lace from und r it, the lamp was pulled over o t the lap I of Miss Bee. The hat ... : .ce immedi- j ately caught tire. Mrs. ii -e had pres- J ence of mind enough to ihis'n the lamp ! to the floor, thereby saving Miss Bee" i dress from becoming ignited. The ; lace, hats, etc., in the vicinity of the ! lamp, were all in a blaze, when Robert ' Bee rushed into the store, and kicked the lamp out doors, extinguishing the flames. The "lamp happended to be a nickel-plated Rochester. Had it been a glass lamD, no doubt more serious seri-ous results would have followed. |