Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1913 — BARN ON NAFZIGER FARM BURNED DOWN [ARTICLE]

BARN ON NAFZIGER FARM BURNED DOWN

The Tenant, Willi Lowman, Discovered Flames After Retiring to Bed Thursday Night. A large barn on the Joseph M. Nafziger farm, formerly the Ed Ranton farm, southeast of Rensselaer, was destroyed by fire, together with the contents, Thursday evening. The farm is tenanted by Will Lowman and himself and wife had retired when the flames attracted their attention and they hastened into their clothes and out to the fire. The bam was so entirely ablaze that nothing could be done to put out the fire nor to save any of the things in the barn. Fortunately the stock was all out in the pasture.. The hay and grain and all of Will’s harness was destroyed. The Republican was unable to learn whether there was any insurance on the barn, which was about 50x6(1 feet in dimensions and had an oats granary, 24x30 feet, attached. There was no known cause of the fire.

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