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Show DEE SCHOOL ON I FIRE AT 2 O'CLOCK Remarkable Coolness of Teachers and Perfect Discipline of Children Prevent What Might Have Been a Disaster Fire Wagons Arrive as Children Are Streaming Out of Building. , The coolness and discipline o( the faculty and students of the Dee school ion Twentieth street prevented a serious seri-ous disaster t 2 o'clock this afternoon when a broken stack caused a lire in u room on the upper storj As it the coolness ofJoel Harris and of Miss lone WilCOX, the teacher in the rouni where the fire occurred, w&i re sponsible for the orderly dismissal of tlie children. Recitation was being held in the : southwest room on the lop tloor when Miss Wilcox noticed smoke and a smail flame emerging Iront the edne ;or the lower ventHator. Calling Mr Harris, the principal, she oii him in a whisper that she belieed tbe build-ilng build-ilng was on fire. Mr. Harris went to the hasement and ilx n went bSCK to the room where b' saw that the woodwork wood-work within the ventilating sbaTt was on fire. He told Charles Marriott, the sic : eep tor the board of education who was in tbe building the time to 'telephone for the fire department &"d 'at the same time he rang the gong for genera) dismissal. So orderly and quietly was everything done that nunc of the bovs and girls in the building knew there v. a. a fire until all were safely out. doors and the fire wagons were on the scene. Thr ventilator where tn nre oc-leurred oc-leurred was quickly torn open by the i firemen and a stream from the chem-I chem-I ical soon )in out the blase. rjpori investlgatldn, H was found that a joint of the smoke stack had corroded allowing a section to fall. The flames escaping soon set the ' woodwork on f I re Because of the excessive COldnesi, a i heavier fire than usual was necessary neces-sary to take ibe chill from the building build-ing whirl, bad been closed Tor two weeks. I The Dec school Is now used as a i junior high school and the boys and iCir:6 attending are all between the, au'-s of 12 and II ynrs Nevertheless' Principal Harris pud thr- faculty consider con-sider i' a fortunate fact that thej (school was dismissed without a itam-' itam-' pede. roof of the Hess bakery was blown otf. carrying with It a part of the west all The stable In ihe tear also suf-fered suf-fered the loss of its roof in that case alone the damages are estimated at 1500. l.ae plate glass window on the I Twenty-fiftb street side or the Ma-1 Ma-1 ion hotel was blown in shortly before midnight, resulting In a loss of $150. Smokers' supplies were scattered over the iidewalk and were blown 1 down the street when the south window win-dow of the Upited Cigar store broke in about 2 o'clock ycsterda morning. The police notified Manager W A Patterson and he came down to ihe store at once. After an inventory he stated that the los would amount lo more than $Hmi. A large electric ?inn abo e a silicon I in the Palace block broke from its moorings and was dashed aainsi the w nils of tbe building, breaking ihn ::btsH and otherwise damaging the 1 -ign. Throughout the counts frame buildings build-ings were damaged, haystacks were blown down and livestock Injured. The Rapid Transit cars were delayed delay-ed Saturday between Pleasant View : and North Ogden because of drifting j snow |