Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — Locomotive Blew Out the Fire. [ARTICLE]

Locomotive Blew Out the Fire.

Using a locomotive engine to extinguish the flames in a burning building is a new departure in Lindsborg, but this is what happened here. On the outskirts of the city a Mexican hut situated about thirty-five feet from the Missouri tracks caught fire, and being out of reach of the fire department it became the duty of the man nearest the blaze to at least make an attempt to put out the fire. The Missouri Pacific’s engine was standing idle on the tracks and had on plenty of steam. The engineer saw the fire and steamed up to a point opposite the burning building, turned on all his steam and blew the fire out in a few minutes. The steam smothered the fire —Lindsborg Correspondence Topeka Capital.