Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1918 — SCHOOL BUILDING IS SWEPT BY FLAMES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL BUILDING IS SWEPT BY FLAMES

Jeffersonville, Feb. 6.—-The trade school building at the Indiana reformatory here is on fire and the flames are rapidly spreading toward the front of the building which connects with a cell house to the east. Another cell house on the west of the trade school is in a separate building and does not appear to be in danger. Fire fighting apparatus has been requested from Louisville. At 1:30 o’clock the fire had spread to the warehouse, chapel and foundry and practically destroyed these buildnigs as well as the trade school building and the administration building was in flames. About 1,250 prisoners were removed from cell blocks which were threatened.