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Total not lots .............%7,5$Q.QQi * • ““The loan in the Mineral- Springs fire Thursday afternoon will be over 58,000. The greater part of this is felt by the president of the Fair Qsnocinllon, Jud-«un T. 'VVilUamR, president of the Wood lawn Stock Farm company. Mr. Williams* personal loss will amount to practically $G,000. The loss to the Mineral Springs Fair, association will he In the neighborhood of 52,000, while the .lows to Joseph Gimoung who had some stuff stored in the barns preparatory to moving to the springs, will be about 5100. The only Insurance carried was that on the barns, which were partially Insured In two companies represented by E. K. Jon-klim nud John Cl. Wetzell. Each of these agents.carried 5200 , making a .lotnl of 5000 insurance, so fur as in Icnown.How Fir* 6tartod»The fire started shortly before 2-o'clbok Thursday* afternoon. Dennis Shnnnahan was boating some water in the usual place about forty feet east of the barns. This water is used in bathing the homes’ legs and for other DurrjoseH about the Htubles. It Is heat-it r'out. XJUiiuiJK me vwnv»It was mi easy matter to put this fire out, however. J. T. Wlillama, on the road with a bunch of cattle, heard of the fire and was soon on the grounds and took personal supervision. The frightened horses that had been turned loose, some of them with the blankets half burned off their backs, were soon captured nnd a veterinary surgcqn summoned from this’ city to take charge of the .injured animals.Tha Home* Burned.The following is the breeding of the homes burned as taken from tho books of the Woodlawn farm:Bardensla—Three year old coAt, cl rod by Expedition, 2;1G%; sire of fifty In the 2:30 list. Expedition by. Eloc-i tioneer, sire of 1C1 fn the 2:30 list. Expedition's dam was Eady llussell, dam of five in 2:30, nnd an own sister to Maud S., 2:08%. UardenniB' dam Is JJards to svn, wired by Bed Wilkes, sire of 180 in the 2:30 list. Unrdstown’s dain is Sylvan Maid, dam of Onward, Silver, 2:0514; Sylvan Maid was an own sister to Kentucky Union, 2:07%* With very limited training Inst fall, Burdensls trotted a full mile In 2:23. as a two year old. Ho was purchasedin Kentucky by Woodluwn farm aftermuch ns the Q. bus to c Northwestern tracks before gctho bridge it will cause a rni: bridge.If tho government accede: request of tho Hydraulic how-ever, it will necessarily new bridge to be put In by Tho removal of the dam down nearly a mile will raise the that, the Northwestern, wil running parallel to the river obliged to make a raise of I to three feet. This will nece new bridge on tho part of lh«q. :N*w Bridge NecessityThe result la that if.a new put In It will be raised to 1 such contingency or else no f be taken to erect a new brl-U Jh sr-en what disposal th States government will muk Hydraulic eompiiny'n requoBiAt all events, however, a 11c will be erected within a yea: This fact wflH practically mihy Mr. Burgess Thursday, at this time what will be don a matter of question and willcause a meeting of the engine*NoHUwoKlprn nnd '‘O.
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Sterling Standard
Sterling, Illinois, US
Fri, Apr 22, 1904
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