Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1914 — LOSS TO REIMS $200,000,000 [ARTICLE]

LOSS TO REIMS $200,000,000

Insurance Companies Estimate the Damage Caused to City by « the Germans. Ldndon.—The correspondent of the Morning Post, who has just returned from Reims, telegraphs from Paris that the Insurance companies estimate the damage to Reims at 1200,000,000. More than twelve hundred civilians were killed in the streets and houses during the month’s bombardment About one-fourth of all the buildings were destroyed. The, most severe damage was in the best portions of the city, ,where the finest and most historic buildings are located. The cathedral is a ruin. Forty thousand of the city’s population of a quarter of f million still remain, mostly living in cellars. *