Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1912 — Timely Discovery Averts Big Fire in Storeroom. [ARTICLE]

Timely Discovery Averts Big Fire in Storeroom.

A fire of incendiary origin broke out in D. M. Worland’s storeroom, about 7 north of his furniture store, about 7 o’clock last evening. Miss Carrie Eger Baw great clouds of smoke issuing from one of the. windows and immediately notified Leo Worland. who was in charge of the store. He rushed ip and succeeded in putting out the fire without assistance. Nothing was destroyed but a mattress and the canopy top to a porch swing.

not been for Miss Eger’s timely discovery, no doubt the entile building wtftild soon have been in flames.