Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-31
Roar of Flames Terrifying.


sparks were beginning to fall through
from above, and the roar of the burn
ing hay was terrifying. The wagon
bought this summer stood nearest the
door and I managed to get that out.
But when l tried to pull out the buggy
its wheels got tangled with harrow
or pillow or something and l couldn
bulge it. I kept Juggling away until
Jane came to the door screaming that
the roof was starting to fall. l de-
cided then the buggy wasn't worth
risking my life for, SO abandoned 1t
to the flames.
I didn't get out of doors any too
soon. Within two minutes all the
lower part of the barn was a seething
mass of flames and l had to turn my
attention to saving the house from de-
struction.
Several neighbors had arrived by this
time and we wet blankets and spread
them on the shingle roof and the side
of the house next the barn. Though
what wind was blowing was from the
opposite direction, n good many blaz-
ing brands did fall on the house. The
larger ones were plucked off and
thrown to the ground and the others
spluttered and went out on the wet
blankets.
Before 1 knew it several men had
started to carry furniture out of the
house, but as the height of the blaze
in the barn had passed with consump-
ton of the hay we held a council and
decided danger to the house was not
sufficient to warrant carrying stuff out
side.
Boys Had Saved Chickens.
: l had a second spell of excitemen Mt
when 1 saw the roof of the chicken
house on fire. and / dashed there to
save the hens, but Jim and Ned had
oh
scattered outside the danger zone
hunting places to roost. A few oucke.s
of water put out the chicken house
blaze and it didn't catch again. n
have to put on new roof. but the
building itself is not extensively dam
aged. How it escaped destruction
can't understand. There were several
inches of straw litter on the floor, and
as the roof was burned through in
several places sparks and plazlns
pieces of single must certainly have
dropped inside. We are not disposed
to worry our heads, however, about
how the chicken house escaped. We
are we'll enough satisfied that it did
At this time of year the cows, for
tunately, are turned into the field at
night, but l had kept him in his stall
narily the horse, too. is turned out at
night. but l had kept hi min his stall
that night because l wanted to do
some work with him before starting for
town THURSDAY HOTHlHS, anu Ic ildS d
playful but none the less aggravating.
ha bit before submitting to being caught
Of a morning of running and kicking
up his heels for a while.
Mystery As to the Calf.
Just how the calf came to be caught
in the burning barn is a good deal of a
mystery. She was supposed to be in
the feed lot adjoining. The side door
leading from the barn into the feed lot
is left open at night, SO the calf can
find shelter inside in case of heavy
storm. But when l went to release
the horse l saw nothing and heard
nothing of the calf. 1t was not until
the roof had started to fall and I had
been driven out that we heard the calf
bawling inside. 1t would have been
suicide to have attempted to go back
for it, so we had to stand there and
endure the little things agonized calls
for help. We were thankful that they
so soon were silenced. The only
theory that presents itself is that che
calf becoming bewildered, ran into the
barn when the fire was at it's height,
but that is so contrary to animal ma
ture it seems hardly tenable. 1t may
be that the calf was inside. asleep, or