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Show Fire At Farm Takes Home And Ail the Contents The fire siren at 1 a. m. Tuesday brought the Delta volunteer fire dept. to the Fenton Gardner farm, 2Mi miles southwest of Delta, where the house was afire. But the fire had such a head start that when the firemen arrived the structure was enveloped in flames. It was surmised that the fire was caused by an oil heater, as that was the only thing alight in the house. It may have become be-come overheated, or may have blown up. No one was in the house at the time, but every article of household furnishings and clothing with in was burned up. The house was Mr. Gardner's, and the furniture furni-ture was Van Warnick's, tenant farmer. Van Warnick planned to move his wife and two children, one a month-old baby, into the house early Tuesday. Their household furnishing fur-nishing were already moved in ,and Van had lit the oil heater Monday forenoon, to warm the house for their arrival. Both Van and Mr. Gardner were on the scene soon after the alarm was sent in, but nothing could be saved. No insurance was carried. car-ried. They and the firemen were there two hours or more, to see that the sparks did not set fire to the hay stacks near, or the chaff pile. A blizzard came on near the end of their vigil and helped put out all the sparks. |
