Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1914 — MIDNIGHT FIRE OF RESIDENCE PROPERTY [ARTICLE]

MIDNIGHT FIRE OF RESIDENCE PROPERTY

M. E. Griffin’s Home Damaged to of sßoo—Fire Caught In the . 800 l Fire was discovered issuing from the roof of M. E. Griffin’s residence on East Elm street ait about 1 o’clock this Saturday morning. The alarm was turned in and 7% mdnVites after the signal bad blown water was turned on the flames and they were quickly subdued. The fire had probably been burning for twenty minutes or more before discovered, however, and the upper part of the house was ruined and there was some damage to the furniture. Apparently (the fire had caught in the roof, although there SB4 theory that it ignited by spontaneous cumtbustion Jn bedclothing to an unfinished bom on the second floor. '" Mr. Griffin had insurance on the' •house in the sum of SI,OOO and it is estimated that the loss is about SBOO. He also had $350 on the furniture; but the Joss was small.