Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1904 — WRECK NEARLY COMPLETE. [ARTICLE]

WRECK NEARLY COMPLETE.

The McCoys had a professional house wrecker here from Lafayette Tuesday, and he made an examination of the wrecked house and pronounced it totally ruined and 6aid it would have to be torn down. The first and second floors were torn to pieces and most of the furniture thereon was utterly ruined, but the third floor and contents, including Tom’s billiard table, was not badly injured. A hole fifteen to twenty inches deep and two feet across was made in the cement floor of the basement by the dynamite. Officers have been watching the premises nights since the blowing up of the house' as well as the property of A. McCoy, to prevent further depreda- 1 tion, and it is reported that old man McCoy is figuratively sleeping on bis arms. A rumor that the McCoy’s would seek to recoyed damages from the city for the the wrecked mansion is probably without foundat'on, as it is difficult to see wherein the city is to blame.