Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — Further Particulars About the Destructive Gillam Township Fire. [ARTICLE]

Further Particulars About the Destructive Gillam Township Fire.

From our Hanging Grove correspondent we are able to give something more about the Gillam township fire Tuesday afternoon. It seems that Mr. Lowry had taken a lantern to the barn in the morning to do the milking and had left the lantern burning in the barn and gone to a neighbors to help in a job of butchering. Before he left he told one of the children to go to the barn and blow out the lantern, but childlike the matter wqs forgotten. The fire occurred at about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and it is presumed that one of the horses had knocked the lantern down from where it hung in the barn. Mrs. Bagley, who keeps house for Mr. Lowry, got the barn door open and got two of the horses out but one ran back and was consumed by the flames. Mr. Lowry had carried insurance but it ran out last May and he neglected to have it renewed, so his loss is total and estimated at about $2,000. His wife died only a short time ago and he has been trying hard to keep his family together. The wind was blowing hard when the fire was at its height and a spark started the kitchen roof of the house on fire. By that time, however, enought assistance had arrived to pub out, the fire and thus save the residence. Mr. Lowry occupied the D. D. Wuethrick farm, 4 miles west of Francesville.