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Show LYRIC THEATRE AT BEAVER DAMAGED BY FIRE EARLY SUNDAY Fire, presumably caused by a defective de-fective wire in the operating mom caused considerable damage to the Lyric Theatre in Beaver early Sunday Sun-day morning. The building was closed between 10:30 and 11:00 p. m. after the evening ev-ening performance with everything apparently in good order. Mr. Man-zione, Man-zione, proprietor of the show house, was awakened by a telephone call at 1:20, telling him the building was on fire. Mark Swindlehurst, returning re-turning from the Legion meet at Milford, discovered the smoke rolling roll-ing from the building, and spread the alarm. Night Watchman Gillies and a number of business men who received the alarm about the same ti:.ne, connected the hose, broke down the east door and chopped a hole in the roof. Smoke poured out of these openings so thick and siuf-focatingly, siuf-focatingly, it was difficult to determine de-termine where the main Are was located. lo-cated. Good pressure permitted water wa-ter to be shot freely into the building build-ing and the fire was soon extinguished. extin-guished. Then it was possible to learn that the Are had been confined to the operating booth and it was smoke only in the rest of the building. build-ing. Had this been escertained earlier, ear-lier, much water damage to the rest of the v building could have been avoided. The building is owned hy Mr. Firmage, now of Long Beach, Cal., and was insured. Joseph A. Manzi-one, Manzi-one, present proprietor, owned the operating machinery and seats, which were also insured. The machines ma-chines were practically destroyed according to casual observation, but things have been left untouched, awaiting the arrival of insurance representatives from California and Salt Lake City so the exact amount of damage cannot be made known till after their inspection.lt was extremely ex-tremely fortunate that tre night was calm, or the fire might have gained sufficient headway to endangered endan-gered the nearby structures. |