Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1919 — FIRE WIPES OUT TRAIL BUILDINGS NEAR LAFAYETTE. [ARTICLE]

FIRE WIPES OUT TRAIL BUILDINGS NEAR LAFAYETTE.

Tecumaeh Trail pavilion, the Penny Arcade building, the small concrete building and the whole line of adjacent sub-builddnigs near Lafayette were destroyed by fire on Tuesday night which started in the storehouse at the north end of the main pavilion and which spread rapidly to the dancing pavilion, threatening the liVes of eighty dancers on the second floor. The buildings,' which were owned by the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana Traction company, were fully covered by insurance. Len Lefler, formerly of Lee, and well known here, lessee of the refreshment privileges at the trail, suffered a loss which is thought to be in the neighborhood of SI,OOO.