Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1912 — WEDNESDAY MORNING FIRE DEVASTATES FARM HOME. [ARTICLE]

WEDNESDAY MORNING FIRE DEVASTATES FARM HOME.

House on Chamberlin A Martatt Farm Razed to Ground—Household EL fecte Total Loss. A fire starting about nine o’clock Wednesday morning razed to the ground the tenant house on the farm, twelve miles north of Rensselaer, in Barkley township, belonging to John Marlatt and C. S. Chamberlin. The farm is tenanted by John Williams and family. Mr.. Williams was not at home at the time and his wife had left the house to turn some cows out to pasture, leaving a baby and two small childrep lying in bed upstairs. The fire was first, noticed by Greely Comer, who was working in a field about a quarter of a mile away. started in the second story and was under too much headway to be put under control without fire fighting apparatus. Mr. Comer rushed to the house and succeeded in rescuing the children, but all of the household goods, save a few trinkets, were consumed in the burning house. The Williams family was left in a destitute condition, everything being lost but the clothes they were wearing. The house was insured for SBOO with the Continental Insurance Co. Chamberlin and Marlatt have not made definite plans for rebuilding.