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Show Mayfield Home Is Destroyed by Fire Fire, believing to have started from defective wiring, completely destroyed destroy-ed the home of Peter Scow at May-field May-field early Tuesday morning, entailing a heavy loss to the owner and leaving leav-ing the family without a home. The structure was a 6-room frame building, build-ing, and after the flames were well started the efforts of the volunteer t.t. firefighters proved of no avail. Members of the family awakened about 1:30 Tuesday morning by smoke floating through the sleeping rooms, and in the darkness an attempt was made to turn on the electric lights. Failing to get results from the lights the family made a hasty retreat for safety. Some were only partially dressed. Practically all the furniture, a large amount of food, canned goods and vegetables, went up in the flames and the loss will run between $3,000 and $4,000. It was unofficially stated that only $1,000 was carried in insurance. in-surance. With the discovery of the fire eating eat-ing rapidly through the building, an alarm was sent out and soon neighbors neigh-bors gathered to lend assistance. In the absence of a fire hose, the tap at the" hydrant was turned on and a bjcket:vh.ri?d.3was formed. ' carrying carry-ing water from ' the hydrant "and a close-by . irrigation ditch. The fire raged; notwithstanding the effort to exstinguish it, and in a little more than two hours the building was a smouldering heap of smoke and ashes. Other buildings nearby were saved from destruction by the volunteer volun-teer firemen. |