Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1913 — MIDNIGHT FIRE BURNED LIVE STOCK [ARTICLE]

MIDNIGHT FIRE BURNED LIVE STOCK

Jack Reeder Lost Two Head of Horses, Two Hogs and Grain and Hay in Burned Barn. At about midnight Tuesday night Jack Reeder, a tenant on the Mrs. Jay W. Williams farm, near Virgie, discovered the roof of the barn on fire. He hurried out .and made an effort to rescue the, stock in the barn hut was successful only in saving a cow. Two good hofses, both mares, were burned to death, as were two hogs, about 35 bushfels of corn, the same amount of oats, (fhite a little hay and considerable harness. The barn was a small one and was built about ten years ago. The contents of the ham were insured in Ray D. Thompson’s agency.