Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1910 — JOE LARSH RESIDENCE DISCOVERED ON FIRE. [ARTICLE]

JOE LARSH RESIDENCE DISCOVERED ON FIRE.

Probably Caugbt From Electric Light Globe—Family Absent and SIOO or More Damage Results.

Trouble never comes single-handed is an old saying, and this seeps borne out by the fact that Joe Larsh and wife, who are in Chicago with their son Jack, who was run over last Saturday evening by an automobile, had the further misfortune to have their residence on Vanßensselaer street catch on fire Wednesday afternoon at about 4:45 o’clock. The call was sent in at jiist 4:50 and it was only a few moments until the fire company was on the scene and with chemical engines the fire was subdued. The damage to the house was probably not more than SSO and a like sum or more to the things in the house.

In the morning a servant in the house had completed some ironing and left the house, and no one was there when the fire started. An electric light globe was left resting against the clothes, which were suspended on a rack. When the lights came on in the evening the hot globe set fire to the clothing and the clothes were burned up and the house set on fire. The early discovery is all that prevented the destruction of the house and all the contents. As it was, the paint was blistered .almost all ovethe inside of the house, and the woodwork considerably burned in the kitchen, and the fire had started in the sitting room when the fire company arrived. Furniture and lace curtains vere considerably damaged. Had water been used to put out the fire the damage would have been materially greater, but by the use of the chemical engines there was not very much damage aside from that caused by the fire itself.

There was insurance, and probably the loss will be fully settled.