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Eighty pigs and three brood sows were burned to death and a large barn with farrowing quarters was completely destroyed by fire Friday at the John Sheffield property in Viewtown. Origin of the fire was unknown.
According to Mrs. Sheffield, she had fed and watered the animals in the morning and checked the barn that afternoon. She had looked out from the house about a half an hour before Mrs. Margaret Barron called on the phone to say the barn was burning and she had called the fire department, Mrs. Sheffield said. The Barrons live across the road at the Viewtown Store.
“I ran to the bam, but couldn’t get near it for it was completely ablaze. The fire companies responded im
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