Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1910 — Rensselaer Boy Escapes From Bramble House in Night Clothes. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Boy Escapes From Bramble House in Night Clothes.

The Bramble hotel at Lafayette was almost destroyed by fire last Friday night and the guests had a hard time in some instances to make their escape. The fire was discovered at 12:15 o’clock at night. The guests escaped by means of the fire escapes, although in some instances life ropes , were used and one woman who had fainted was carried from her apartment by a fireman. Will Platt, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Platt, of this city, who is attending business college there, stops at that hotel, there, stops at that hotel, and escaped down a fire escape scantly clad. He and other guests took refuge in a feed barn, where they donned such scanty raiment as they were able tdi rescue during their -hurried flight from the burning building. Mr. Platt went to Lafayette Sunday to see his son whose feet were badly frost bitten from coming in contact with the iron fire escape.