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Show I" 110,000 LOSS RESULTS FROM , CRIMINAL HGT Grant School Set on Fire By Incendiary, Declare j Investigators 1 OIL SOAKED WASTE USED, FACTS INDICATE Same Person Who Caused Reign of Terror Last Sum- 1 " mer Busy, Belief I m - H Incendiary 'fire, believed to be the work of, the firebug who repeatedly a attempted to ignite the Dee and g Mound Fort schools last summer, and I who. is thought to have been the cause 3 of the Humphris mill fire, the Ogdcn I macaroni plant fire, the Marlon hotel I fire, tho Ogden junk house fire and I nearly a score of conflagrations labtf I ' summer, burned the rear portion ol I tho Grant school house last night. I Dr. B. I. Rich, president of the board of education, said the loss would I be between $S,000 and $10,000. j Only prp17.pt and efficient work ot A " the fire " department prevented the I t building'i'rom becoming a total loss. Evidence Disco vered. I Direct evidence was found that the same .method of igniting the fire was used as was attempted last summer j at the Dee school. A charred portion at the base of a door, near me seat of the fire, '"'allowed that oil-soaked waste, ,or 'similar material, had been 5HfJl. lighted, "v. , ; ' Residents living near the school re- I ' 1 ' called that on several occasions re- .1 eently lights have been scon in the ; -r w portion ot tne scnooi wneru ine uru I -v originated. ' frlf Heat, of great intensity damaged I .- ! 1 r lerpourcu oneiiufii cs wushTrfftP ('. ! diately converted into steam, which! r ' m pormeatcd the building, causing plas- f ' I j ter to crumble from the walls ana ;f L ceilings. I1 f Paint on window sills was convert- ;. j ed into a hot, sticky mass because uf the heat. j . Gets Good Start. j' According to word from the fire ; department, the fire had been burning i j long before the department was noti- j j" fied. When they responded 10 tne call, great columns of smoke wore j j pouring from the cupola at the top of J r the building. A call was sent in for I' the hook and ladder, indications be ing that the fire was at the top of the school. Beforo the hook and ladder lad-der had arrived, the fire was lound to bo under a staircase at the rear of tho building, in a small room used for mj Ji ' Tne front doors of the school were found to be unlocked, but the intenso 6fa heat and dense clouds of smoke pre- vented firemen from entering the JI building at that point. 9' By breaking into the furnaco room I- at the rear of tho building, and into ilhe basement, the firemen got dircct'.y to the center of tho fire, and witmn twenty minutes had the firo under control. Nearly an hour and a half elapsed, however, beforo the flames were totally extinguished. i t; ,With wind blowing violently, it was I f.. thought for a time that tho building t P. would be consumed. ,y J?; In the store room where the firo $ H- started about fifty desks were btorcd- r It' .was the Igniting of theso desks by I j the firebug, it is claimed, tiiat caused j j the conflgration. Immediately over J k tho pile of desks was a large ventilator shaft, forming a flue for tho fire, and . "with the enormous draft fanning the tjj flames through tho ventilator, intenso . heat was generated. '1 ;'"' A staircase immediately over the !W ' P"e of douks burned through and h K , made another opening for air, which fanned the flames to oven greater & Members of tho fire department m, claim that the Grant school fire was fez the hottest that they ever had occa-sion occa-sion to extinguish. Two lines of hose -y'r' werc used at the fire, and after the ftp; flames had been reduced to blackened If' ashes, two firemen, with-a lino of hose $ for immediato action, guarded tho W." building until this morning. "The same man that attempted to firo the Dee school set fire to the Grant school lasr night," a member of j - the fire department declared. At the K' '. -Uce school a huge wad rf oil-soaked m. cotton waste was packed in tho loft- K ' hand corner at tho base of a rear K' door. It was discovered beforo any . r damage was done. g. ' News paper, oil-soaked, was wadded t; under a window framo ot the Mound h, Fort school and ignited, while evi-' evi-' i donee that gasoline had been used to R- start the ice house liro, tho Ogden ' -' Junk house firo and Ogden macaroni ft plant and several other incendiary . I blazes last summer, was discovered." i It io believed that the samo man J who was responsible for last 3u;umer's reign of terror is again at work, and i every effort will bo made, it is stated, to apprehend tho man before further damage to property ia caused |