Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1913 — Some Fire Without Any Excitement and No Whistle. [ARTICLE]

Some Fire Without Any Excitement and No Whistle.

The fire department answered a quiet call this Wednesday morning and made a run to the scene of a lively fire without having the whistle signal the alarm and without sounding the gong on the fire engine. Many thought the team was being taken out fox a practice run when it raced east on Washington street at about 9 o’clock in the morning. The cause of the call was the burning of two piles of new creosoted railroad ties along the Monon tracks near the Standard Oil tanks. The ties made a raging fire and the creosote caused a roll of black smoke so dense and high as to suggest to many that the oil tanks was on fire. The company soon had a stream of water playing on the ties and the fire was subdued without many knowing that the company was out at all. The ties were doubtless worth SIOO or more to the company.