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Show FREoTUi DESTR0YSJUT0M0B1LE Consumes Machine Belonging to B. F. Knell of this City-Mr. City-Mr. KnelL Injured Tuesday nisht a firo occurred in Lund which damaged property proper-ty to the extent of $2500, perhaps per-haps more, the exact damage at this timo being unknown, and which for a timo threatened to wipe out the principal portion of the little village. B. P. Knell, who runs an automobile auto-mobile between Cedar City and Lund, was in the building in which he kept his machine, cleaning it and getting it all ready for the return trip to this city the following morning. The building had been used for several months as a garage, and oil and gasoline had been spilled on the ground so often that the soil had become thoroughly thor-oughly saturated with grease. In going about the machine, Mr Knell stepped on a match which had been carelessly dropped on the earthen floor and it was ignited. ig-nited. Thinking to put it out, he attempted to stamp it, and in doing so the grease in the soil caught fire. The flames flashed upland before anything could be done to control them, had reached reach-ed a pile of oil-soaked rags. Mr. Knell secured a heavy cloth and attempted to beat them out, fighting with the determination of a demon but the flames con-liLUjed!tpj con-liLUjed!tpj nmK Finally ne was lorcetl to flee and in order to escape he had to crawl out on his hands and knees. His right hand was badly burned, the skin was burned from his right ear and the right side of his face badly scorched. He came to Cedai City Wednesday Wednes-day morning and Dr. Leonard dreased his injuries which, while painful, are not serious. There was a quantity of gas-olinein gas-olinein the engine and about forty gallons in a tank in the building, also a full barrel of lubricating lub-ricating oil. These were destroyed des-troyed as well as the building and the automobile. The flames spread from the garage to a camp house belonging belong-ing to J. A. Root, postmaster at Lund, and used as sleeping quarters quar-ters for the drivers of the stage line. This met the same fate, and was soon doomed, along with its contents, among which was a suit case filled with clothing belonging be-longing to .James Younger. Bedding Bed-ding land harness were among the other property destroyed. Adjacent to the camp house was the store" of J. David Leigh, and this the flames proceeded Jto attack. Fortunately there were a great many men in town awaiting await-ing the arrival of the northbound north-bound train, and these worked with such effort that the damages to the Leigh building were confined con-fined to the north wall, which was only slightly burned and blackened. More damage was suffered by Mr. Leigh as a result of carrying his stock of Jmer-chandise Jmer-chandise to thestreet than from the fire. In the Knell garage, B. Ferris had a quantity of automobile supplies, and a complete set of tools, all of which were totally destroyed. The damage is estimated es-timated at from $2500 to $3000, $2000 of wnich was suffered by Mr. Knell. The loss to the latter will be keenly felt by his many friends in this part of the county and elsewhere. By his uniform courtesy cour-tesy and reliability, he had won a host of friends who were anx- fl ious to see him succeed in the ifl operation of an automobile lino between this city and Lund. Until the present disaster, ho had been very successful, seldom missing a daily round trip be- fl tween the two places. ' fl |