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Show CEDAR CITY HAS I DISASTROUS FIRE I Flames Lick up Large Barn, H Horses and Other Property '1 at Corry Hotel. RH SCARCITY OF WATER iHH RETARDS FIRE FIGHTING H Fire Hrcnks Out in Middle of Night and Creates Much EvcUcntcnl H Homcff Thrcntctted. H What Is more dreadful, more up- H palling than tho dtend cry of fire, H when it rings out upon the still night M nir and cuts your slumbers like a keen H bladcd knife, filling your breast with n mysterious diead, which makes you H almost afraid to look about and sco H in what quarter tho firo ragus. This M is about tho way tho writer fult at M S:80 a. m. last Monday, when we ' H were roused into consciousness by '1 tho Bhriil cry fire! In an Instant H tho glow of the flames shown through M our window, causing tha wholo room il to glow like a coal of fire itself. The fire proved to bo at the prom- ,'H iscs of tho Corry Hotel across the ' M block, and tho monster tongucc of il flame wop) issuing from tho roof of s'l tho big1 lumber barn, while the sparks M and glowing cmbors rose in the air H in a dense cloud, and scattorcd for blocks around. The people won all M asleep nnd responded but nlowly to M the alarm. When at last they did H gather in considerable numbers, thero M wac found to be no pressure in the H mains on tho block, worth mention- ' ing. As there was no water in tho !H open ditches, either, the people do- I H voted thcmselvia to the extinguishing .H of mich fires as wero ignited by the Jl spaiks, and permitted tho fire very " jjH largely to burn Itself vuV until ittv 'w"agfifc JB length the pressure . was turned on "H and Ktinibrinreimr! vAMrf; saved for their fuel value. There'was H about CO tons of hay in the barn, 'i' besides the live slock, and this was H allowed to burn up as nearly ns pos- I H sible. , For u timo the surrounding proper- t'H ty was in imminent danger of being H destroyed, but fortunately tho crisis H was passed without the fire spread- H H The loss resulting from tho fire is H estimated by Mr. Corry, tho propric- WM tor of the premises, at between $3,- , 9 500 nnd $4,000, nnd is divided ns fol- ' H Dam, ., $1,100.00 M GO tons of hay 420.00 Eight head of, horses 1,200.00 M Harness nnd saddle 800.00 '"'1 Farm machinsry, etc COO.OO m J Total $3,520.00 M In addition to the above Mr. Oscar M Carlson lost three head of horses, harness and saddlo, probably worth M $500 or more. M The barn and contents were insured M to tho extent of only $000. M Mr. Corry got to the barn just aB H tho fire was beginning to envelop the M building and attempted 'to open the , M Btablo with a view to saving somo of 'M the animals, but tho suction was so M great ind the heat so terrific that ho H was unable to get the door open and M did not care to venture his life by M climbing through the windows, so that all tho animals, with the exeep- M tion of one that chanced to be.' out- , side of tho barn, perished in tho cH flumes. ' :M The fire furnishes a vivid example , fl of a Httlo intelligent preparation for ' '3j an emergency of this kind, and wo fjjj trust that the city council and others ) fw in chargo of affairs will try to im- ; -&! provo our facilities for prompt action I Mk in tho case of fire. wftjfy |