Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1916 — FIRE DESTROYS HOME LAUNDRY [ARTICLE]

FIRE DESTROYS HOME LAUNDRY

One of Oldest Buildings at the State Soldiers’ Home is Wrecked By Flames—Fully Insured.

Lafayette Journal. Fife, thought to have originated in crossed wires, completely destroyed the laundry building at the state soldiers’ home shortly after midnight Tuesday morning. The building, a one-story brick building, was a mass of smoldering ruins within a short time, and it was only the valiant efforts 'of the home fire department that saved the nearby buildings. All the clothes in the laundry were lost, although a part of those in the clothes store, which was in the same building, were saved from ihe flames. The building was one of the first erected at'the home in 1895 and cost approximately SIO,OOO. The loss is entirely covered by insurance. The brick walls fell at about 1 o’clock and the firemen turned their efforts to the carpenter, paint and plumbing shop, w 1 ich was endangered, but saved fiu '. the flames.

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