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Show I HORSE, AUTO AND THIRTY TONS OF HAY LOST IN FIRE DESTROYING BARN ON WEST TWENTIETH STREET I Thirty tons of ha a $200 mare ind a Ford car, property of H J fiddle ton wen' burned this morning morn-ing in a fire thought to have been started by a cigarette of a tramp who slept In Middhton's barn This morning at 6:30 o clock tho department received a call from Si 6 West Twentieth strett the Mlddleton residence. Upon arriving at the srene, it was found that the shed containing the hay. I horse and car was a mass of flames The firemen worked en-tergetlcallN en-tergetlcallN and In a short time had tho blaze under control. The fire apparenllv had been burning some time before it was discovered and the car and the horse could not be saved. DetectUes W A. Jones and Robert Ro-bert Chambers Investigated the fire and a search for the tramp is bring made. The loss Is estimated at more j than $1500. |