Show from fridays daily A fire scare about this afternoon a big excitement was raised in the town by adease column of coal black bokn that arose on franklin street between third and fourth aa is well known the ogden pipe com pany have their works on the cast aide of mr II 11 E gibbons gibsons Gib sons pla ining mill they are engaged in bandine their pipe with iron in the coure of which work it is necessary to use tar the company are having a large caul ron made for the purpose of boiling their tar but it not being quite finished and they having a contract to hll immediately they were compelled t improvise an other cauldren cauldron caul dron of an inferior kind to that being constructed for them this cauldren cauldron caul dron was placed nearly in the middle of the street and over half full of boiling tar the lad who attends to it being engaged in some other work bad forgotten to watch the cauldren cauldron caul dron and the result wag that the tar becoming overheated ran over the tides of the cauldren cauldron caul dron and took fire had there been enough loose dust in the street this could have soon been stopped but as it was abo same took possession of the entire apparatus the fire rose up perhaps two feet above the top of the cauldren cauldron caul dron but what caused the great alarm the ringing of bells the blowing of whistles from the locomotives and the hasty arrival of tho fire engine upon the scene was the dense cloud of smoke that arose our reporter happened to bo upon the spot when the tar took fire and the scene that took place put him much in mind of the witch scene in macbeth to sea the parties connected shovel ing dirt inta the cauldren cauldron caul dron and then when our old friend davi carrying upon his back a babcock extinguisher gu isher appeared upon the scene in which was recognized II ecate the scene was finished for no sooner did ho turn oc the little stream than presto out went what little flame wa and the smoke soon became ed the appearance of the smoke from main street was formidable but when the crowd got to tho scene and saw what little cause there was for alarm all laughed and allowed it was a joke fit for the first of april |