Show STREET CARS CUT HOSE AT RAILROAD YARD FIRE Monday evening about aboul 8 S o'clock fir nr completely destroyed three box curs cars which were standing on a Rio Grande siding on Fifth West ct between Seventh South nn and Eighth South streets The loss amounted to about 1600 rho Tho lire fire was discovered by a switch engine crow crew By y the time limo the department department depart depart- ment ha had arrived the fire had gained g such headway that it was Impossible for or the firemen to tu get gel it control and they the confined their efforts to saIn saving saying say sav In ing tho ho surrounding property properly No sooner had hati the firemen stretched their ho hose hope c than they were put out of oC business b by cars No 57 97 and 98 8 of or the Poplar Grove line running across the hose hmo and amI cutting It in two and completely completely com corn destroying about feet of I valuable hose The firemen hind hall stationed stationed sta sta- a man half haIr a block from where the hose cro crossed sd the track to stop the lie I. I cars but for some unknown reason I they did not respond to the tho signal This dela delay put the fIremen out of commission com con I mission for or about fifteen minutes I I It is II believed helleved that the lire 1110 was started stalled h by sparks from a switch enI en en- I gine g I |