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Show EPIDEMIC Off IRES IN TEX 8 CITIES AROUoE OFFICIALS DALLAS. Tex.. Dee. t. An epidemic epi-demic of tires in several Tex.ui v.t.es ui.d towns Saturday and . i tj caused the lo of one Hie .. n p Q1 erty damage totalling Upward of a guart r million of dollars. At Childress, Oscar Lcdbctter was burned to death when his home was rier.t roved. The Mechanical Engineering laboratory was destroyed at Agrl-. Agrl-. iltural and Ueohanlcal college StatlODt entailing a losa of about J76.0OU. At Harold, near Wichita Full:, flames swept nine business establishments estab-lishments caus. ng a monetary Iocs of between fnO.uOfl and 176,000, At Breckinridge Saturday fire completely wiped out a business block The lots is estimated at $oo.tion. This b!a.'- is reported to have Originated from an oil well, which had been "shot " At Wichitn J' a .Is Sunday nlno fires broke out within a period of two hours in widely scattered sections sec-tions of the city. The property loss was not great. Officers working on a theory of ln n-diarlsm n-diarlsm are holding five suspects. On |