Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1914 — Carpenter Township Farmer Suffers Big Fire Loss. [ARTICLE]

Carpenter Township Farmer Suffers Big Fire Loss.

Goodland Times. ‘ .Wednesday night Geo. Fox, living tour miles southeast of Goodland, suffered a severe loss by fire. About 11 o’clock it wias discovered in the upper p'art of his double crfb and before help could arrive whe burned to the ground. The crib contained three thousand bushel of oats and all of the new corn husked from twenty acres. Also wagons, buggies and . other farm property. Henry Myers, a young irian employed in husking corn for Mr. Fox, had a buggy in the driveway of the crib, and wfhen the first was discovered attempted to save the buggy. He ruShed in barefooted and getting hold of the thills of the buggy started out with it. But the fire had progressed to such a stage that coals were falling on the. floor and he was obliged to walk through them with bare feet. As a result the bottoms of his feet were very badly burned and he will probably be confined to the house for some time. Mr. Fox had just installed a new engine in the crib for elevating the Corn, jnd it is supposed that a spark must have reached the upper part of v tjhe building. JSis loss will be heavy, as he had only about $750 insurance. However, it is lucky that there was no wind, and that the loss was not greater. . * *