Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1912 — EXPLOSION OF OIL STOVE STARTS FIRE. [ARTICLE]

EXPLOSION OF OIL STOVE STARTS FIRE.

Mrs. Henry Eiglesbaeb Extinguished Fire Started In Kitchen Single Handed—Slight Damage. The explosion of a kerosene cook stove about 11:30 this Monday morning at the home of Henry Eiglesbach, one mile west of .Rensselaer, started a fire that might have ended disastrously. Mrs. Eiglesbach was preparing dinner and was alone when the explosion occurred. Fire Chief Montgomery was notified of the explosion and he and several -other es -the eity firfemen. wRh twenty-three gallons of the fire extinguishing chemical, rushed to the scene in an automobile, arriving there a few minutes later. When they arrived, however, Mrs. Eiglesbach, single handed, had succeeded in extinguishing the flames by the use of water and by smothering with- clothes. The woodwork was badly charted and the wallpaper scorched and burned. Also a kitchen cabinet and one or two minor articles were soiled. In her lone fight against the fire one pf Mrs. Eiglesbach’s hands was severely burned. 4 half dozen or more autos from toWn rushed to the scene oi the fire. Fire Chief Montgomery stated that he and his men would always be willing to give their assistance at farm houses in cases of fire that were not too distant, if they were notified in time. He that it wonld he easy to carry one hundred gallons of fire chemical to any such fire.

Elmer Wilcox, who plays Ist base with Monon every Sunday, reports a fine game yesterday. Monon played Battle Ground, trimming them .4 to 0. Leecy, Monon’s pitcher, got fourteen strikeouts. Eight of them were made within the first five innings and five’ in the first and second inning. Battle Ground got only two hits. Monon got five hits. Wilcox starred in the game by making a hit in the seventh inning,for Gary in the Northern Indiana League, tie was formerly a White Sox player, being released by Comiskey in 1908 to St'Rani, with whom he played in 1909-10.