Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1877 — A Fire Extinguished with Milk. [ARTICLE]

A Fire Extinguished with Milk.

Barre, a village in Washington county, Vt., has several manufacturing companies, but farming, wool, sugar, and stock-raising constitute the principal business of the place, not mentioning the large quantities of tho celebrated Vermont butter and cheese. The barns are in almost every case attached to the dwelling. One of them was xii flames ; the inhabitants turned out en masse, and were fighting the fire successfully, with fair prospects of saving the house, and it was announced that the supply of water was exhausted. The milk of 100 cows was substituted for water ; carpets were saturated with this precious but cheap commodity, and the homestead was saved,