Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1911 — DOG SENDS IN FIRE ALARM [ARTICLE]

DOG SENDS IN FIRE ALARM

name of Big New Haven Buslneee Block Lights Up the Waters of Long Island Bound. New Haven, Conn. —Fire swept away the Killlam block, a $200,004 loft building in the downtown factory section of this .city. - The stocks of four business tenants were destroyed and three tenement houses adjoining were burned. A bulldog in thh building gave the alarm by barking, but before the firemen could get Into action there was g terrific explosion, apparently of gasoline or other oils, which drove the fire throughout the entire building. When the smoke of the explosion cleared the flames had spread to all five flows. ■ 'IS*