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Show FIREMEN UTTERLY HELPLESS AT FIRE i Tho third flro this wcok, at which j Iho flro department was utterly help- j leas, occurcd Thursday, about 11:20 j at tho" homo of Kd. Clements In tho j Fourth ward. Tho firemen mndo a ( flno run, having left tho garage oven j before tho boll began to ring. Wlion thoy reached the burning building, thee was Insufficient hoso to reach to thu nearest flro hydrant, some two blocks uway Chemical extinguishers extinguish-ers woro used, but to llttlo avail, as tho flro had too much headway. The firemen wero thero In plenty of time to nao tho building had thero been any water accosMble.1 Tho only water nearby was from the old bed 'creok, nnd the flromon wero holploss land could, only stand by and wutcli tho houso burn to tho ground. Tho origin of tho fire Is not definitely de-finitely knqwn. Mrs. Clements was outside airing bed clothes when sho turned nnd saw the house aflamo. Tho alarm was quickly turned In and neighbors rushed to their usslst-anco usslst-anco nnd helped get out a fow of th'o small pieces of furnltuie. Nothing of much nlun was sincd The efforts of tho fliemen woro turned on the barn wliluh was In duirer of being burned. The home and furniture were Injured In-jured for $7G0, but tho loss far oxen ox-en ded this sum. |