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Show EUGEIIEuEQO LOSESISIDEGE Fire Destroys Home of Telephone Company Manager Friday Morning When Heating Stove Starts Wall Paper. - ' ' A . v-if ' 1 Wall paper catching fire from the heat of a heating stove caused the burning down of Eusene Jenkin'a . . home on Carr Jiork Friday mormng' of last week. ; , , "', , The house which included the fufni- ture was owned by George E. Chand- ler, was completely gutted, only the four walls of the house remaining, caused it is said, because of the snow and ice that kept the fire within the ' four walls. . , ' - Without a tin lining to protect ,it, the wall pafter made wonderful fact for the leaping flames which da ed out of the windows and doors until the arrival of the fire department ';' few minutes after the alarm had teen turned in. ' '."ji 'Jv::-".- '"' Those who watched tho firemen' at work on the conflagration were pro-, fuse in their praise of the speed and bravery shown, by. Bingham's fire fighting creV. ' ' , , Six minutes after the department ar rived, the flames were Under control, -and buildings adjoining knd across a ten foot path were saved. It is the consensus of opinion tiat only the fast Work of the firemen Lryt the fire from spreading and devour ing the Edwards apartments, a three- " story wood structure, which stands but 30 feet away. Mr. Jenkins, who is the manager of the Telephone Company here, immediately imme-diately sent his family, which is composed com-posed of his wife and three children, Elvira aged . 8, Maurice aged 7 and ; . Eugene Jr., aged 2, to the home of1'"', his mother in Provo where they will remain indefinitely according to Mr. Jenkins. . ' ', : In the Atha Lee home, which adjoins ad-joins the Jenkins house on the north,, four children lay asleep at the time " ' of the fire, and heroic work on the part of passersby saved tbe lives of . .: . . Seeing the flames leaping from the Jenkins windows,' men passing by ran to-thtrasrta-c oLUfs, .Leeand. in short time all four children were re- " " moved to the home of Harry Browr( ' -across the path. The four Lee chil- ' dren are Hazel and Helen, twins ag- " ed 10, George, aged 9, and Clifford, aged 1 year.--v . ! It was impossible to get the names of the men who , rescued the four' children,' one of them stating that it was nothing and could not see any reason for being given credit, i - The three older Lee children are with an aunt, Mrs. Merrill,' at Bluff- . ', dale. : - I Although the- Lee home was gutted by water, very little damage was done by fire, owing to the fast work of the ; fire fighters. Whether the house destroyed by''' fire will be rebuilt has not been as-certained. as-certained. , - 1 , !. ; ' , |