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Subject: Oh-Mahoning Co. News (Beard Barn, Stoc)
Date: 1 Feb 2006 03:19:19 -0000


Mahoning County OhArchives News.....Beard Barn, Stock Destroyed in $75,000 Fire January 14, 1954
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Jennifer Neff January 31, 2006, 9:19 pm

Youngstown Vindicator, Th, 14 Jan 1954 Front Page January 14, 1954
Beard Barn, Stock Destroyed in $75,000 Fire
62-Year-Old Structure Is Lost; Beard, Sons Can't Save Cattle
One of Mahoning County's largest barns was virtually destroyed and valuable
livestock lost in a $75,000 fire which broke out on the Arthur Beard farm in
New Buffalo Road near Western Reserve Road early today. Although Boardman
Township fire department officials listed loss at between $40,000 to $50,000,
Arthur Beard said his loss is about $75,000 in building, machinery, livestock
and feed. The large barn, erected in 1892 by Beard's grandfather, Sylvanus
Beard, was 100 feet square and had seven gables. The farm is on New Buffalo
Road, about a mile south of Western Reserve Road.
Daughter Saw Light
Beard said the fire was discovered at 4:25 a.m. by his daughter, Mrs. Caroline
Gould, who was awakened by a bright light in the sky. She looked out the
window saw flames and shouted fire. Beard and his two sons, John, 17, and
Richard, 21, rushed to the barn and attempted to drive some 75 head of
frightened cattle and horses from their stalls. Moat of the building was
aflame and part of the roof had collapsed. John Beard received a deep cut on
his right arm while attempting to drive the cattle from the blazing building.
A 900-pound Guernsey bull and 10 head of cattle were lost. Beard said four
thoroughbred horses, three brood mares and a stallion, which had been driven
from the building, raced back into the barn and were destroyed. Two tractors,
a truck and threshing machine, hay and grain were also destroyed. Firemen from
Beaver, Boardman and Canfield townships watered down nearby buildings but were
unable to save the barn. Firemen said that dry hay and grain stored in the old
structure fed the blaze.


Additional Comments:
Comment from Jennifer L. Neff, 2005
My father, Robert H. Neff, drove me past the spot where this large barn once
stood. He was very sad to see it gone. He remembers visiting there and he said
that the barn was the biggest one that he had ever seen - and also one of the
best-looking.

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