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Show DESTRUCTIVE FIRE ATJCANARRA. Bishop Berry Loses Largo Bam, M Tons of Hay and Animals. Flro Presumably Started by Person Dropping .Lighted Alatch or Cigarette. (By 'Special Phono.) Word was rooeivod over tho phonn that Kanarrn was visited thla morning morn-ing by a disastrous Ilro on tho promises prom-ises of BWhop Berry. The flrtines wore notiood shortly af-tor af-tor daylight thla morning, and the oltlzena ruhed to tho plaoo nud started a bucket brigade, but tho lire had galnod audi proportioua that it was next to Impossible to aavo elthor tho barn or buy. a, it was, about two.tonaof baled hay wiib saved, which whs iu Mich n bhnpo that It could be oarrlod out. Bishop Berry had just complotod a largo ham and had stored in it in tbo neighborhood of 100 tonaof excellent hny. Ho nlso had now BhodB whloh wore erected nt tho aatno tlmo, nnd thoy too were nearly all destroyed. Besides tho loss of hay, aheda and barn, thoro woro i hogs, which wore ready for the butohor, caught Iu tho flamea and destroyed. Tho origin of the fire Is obscure, but it la kuowa that a man slept sear tho barn last night aad it I preaumed he oareloasly dropped it matob or olgaretto m the straw and 5tuirjy.ji. around,' wVlbh amoldored and"" Anally broko into flamoa with tho above meotlonod result. Tho bishop left early this morning to go for coal up tho cnuyou and at tho tlmo tho phono measugo waa ro-ooivod ro-ooivod at thla ofiloo ho was not cognizant ot hla heavy losa. the loea laeetimntcd to roaoh considerably over 81,200. |