Show a evans lose farm home in sat morning blaze the farm home of mr and mrs horace evans in the pump well district of parowan carowan valley was corn plemely destroyed by fire early saturday morning the blaze broke out in the attic of the house between 8 and 9 p m and before help could be summoned the whole structure was doomed most of the household furniture was saved but the fam ilys clothes and personal effects which were in the east portion of the house where the fire started and valued at about were lost the fire was started in the wiring of the house when one of the southern utah power companas Comp anys high tension lines was blown down across other wires by a high wind which had raged throughout the night and sent the heavy current through the house wires mr evans said he was awakened awa kenec gibout 4 a m by a flash of lighten lightening and a fire in his radio and after extinguishing this the refrigerator era tor caught fire and burned up looking out of the window he sail he saw sav several small fires on the poles carrying high tension lines and on one of the transformers in front of his place small fires were le ie ported at the P H gurr farm across the road the same morning cne in in the house and one at the brooder house both of which w were ere extinguished before any damage was done however total damage was estimated at 2000 the alarm was turned in and many townspeople and the city fire truck rushed to the scene of the fire but the pump on the truck refused to function and pump water from the reservoir near the house so a bucket brigade composed of neighbors and townspeople was formed and saved nearby buildings the rainstorm of the night before had dampened two large stacks of hay just north of the house to the extent that they were saved furniture and fruit stored in the house and celler was removed by farm neighbors before the alarm reached town as no telephone was available in that neighborhood the power company remitted mr evans pump bill of some and agreed to pay an additional tol to help repair the damage and also had the refrigerator repa repaired irea |