Show SOME illumination last saturday evening it a party drove up lit in front of sams garage ordered their car tilled filled with gas and when the tha tank overflowed a match was waa brought forth by the tha parties who were getting their car fill filled edund and a look was taken to ascertain it tile the tank was really full just on elook one look that was waa sufficient ont in one instant install there was plenty of light on the subject act dingo bingo the finnies swept nearly to the clouds and as there was waa not a breath of 0 wind stirring the affair turned out luck but bui had had there been a wind from either the south or east it ts Is mighty hard bard to tell just where the thing would have ended but nine chances out of ton ten the north west end ot of tho the city would have been swept before the flames this Is not the first time we have heard ot of people getting careless with matches and hope that it will be a lesson to this one omar reid was waa serving the customer I 1 and barely escaped getting horribly burned by throwing hlo his coat over his head thus avoiding bettl getting ng any of the flames in hla his system arhe or he also would have hava been a sufferer the flames were immediately smothered and very little damage was done aside from scorching up tho the car a bit but we would advise everyone who contemplates looking into thu tho rear end of a car while at tilling filling stations to use a spot light in act carry one or go out in t the ho fie fields ads some place where they will not jea deap the property of the pub public licin in general no blame Is attached to the garage gabage or its attendants but we are not mentioning any names at the present writing as we re really ally believe those who were implicated in the matter have suffel buttered ed enough through their carelessness |