Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — TEN DIE IN A FIRE. [ARTICLE]

TEN DIE IN A FIRE.

Union Rnlfitoad Yian»porta4ion Company's To'edO Buena. 4 Ten menTremated, eight more fatally burned and many more seriously injured are fee renfißa o' fee most disastrous fir* feat ever occurred in Toledo. The spontaneous eombifstidh of dust in fee grain elevator owned by Paddock, Hodge & Co. caused this ‘terrible destruction oT life, and none .of those taken oat after the fire started was far enough from death’s door to tell any of the horrible details. Those in the vicinity at fee Union elevator soon noticed flames bursting (roan all sides ot the building. It was but | a few minutes till the fiiP deportment of the city began fee work of rescue, which was rendered difficult by the terrific beat of fee fine. The river cut off escape on one side and there the flames scented to be less fierce. The families of a dozen men who were known to be at work within rushed to the scene, and women calling for feeir imprisoned husbands, brothers and fathers made a scene indescribable. It was learned that fee force of twenty men expected to load 80,000 bushels of grain during fee night. Not one of the entire number cowld be seen in any part of fee building and it was impossible to reach them. Fireman David Kemp and Charles Keifer, the engineer, were found at their places in fee engine rooms. They were wounded by falling timbers and their faces charred to a crisp by the flames. The heat became so intense that twenty ears standing on sidings near fee burning building were added to the loss. The tire department had a hard struggle to save other elevators and property. The property and the grain is an* entire loss and wall reach $450,000. The insurance is $135,000 on fee building and the grain is covered wife $258,000 insurance.