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Show . fisily Safe As fire Razes Home n Bountiful v ""jKward Day and his wife, Dar- rs. enei their two daughters and 8- ir- month old son were left homeless is. ith only the clothing they wore ' when fire, Sunday, demolished the in duplM in Bountiful where they si had been living. Another couple, with three children, who also lived 's jj, house, were in . the same -tate. iii s rpe fire was discovered about 'ft I 8 a.m. by the Day's 7-year old daughter, Susan, who rushed to s" the kitchen to tell her mother n that the living room ceiling was . i afire. " , Mrs. Day ran to rouse the neigh- ir bors next door, with Susan, and s' returned to find the second daughter daug-hter in the yard with the baby l' boy she had carried out. 11 A gale wag blowing, and the '' fire spread rapidly to the roo'f 1 and through the house, so that Mrs. Day was unable to re-enter '" to save anything. All the contents of the place went in the fire, said " to be caused from an over heated stove. " Howard had left for work some e thirty minutes eariler, and go was clothed. But his family and the ' neighbors escaped with only their ' night clothes. This is the third disastrous fire Howard has experienced. When he was a boy in Delta with hig par- ' ents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Day, the family was burned out when the Edwards apartment caught fire, in 1929, and again in 1942 when the Day's present home was I on fire. Sunday the Day family was taken tak-en to the residence of Mrs. Day's sister, Mrs. Lloyd Zesinger, in Boun i tiful. They were urotected by insurance, in-surance, and spent Monday loca- i ting another residence and buying i furnishings. Their parents left Tuesday Tue-sday for Bountiful to help them get settled. |