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Show Fire Destroys 50 Tons Bailed Hay More than fifty tons of bailed hay was desttoyed by fire at the S. T. Nelson dairy farm West of Cedar City Sunday afternoon. Th? fire threatened to spread to an adjoining stu-k of hay containing contain-ing more than the one thut was i burned, and to the dairy sheds but fortunatelly the wind was I blowing from the South and away from the sheds and stacks, and ' this together with the work of the jelty fire department made It possible pos-sible to save all but the one stack. The file was started when the high wind blew heavy oiled paper, u.SLd for covering on the stack onto on-to high tension electric wires passing pass-ing directly over the stack, breaking break-ing one and dropping it onto the hay. With hay selling at top celling pi Ices the loss sustained by Mr. Nelson was will over $1000. |