Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — Flames In Fashionable Church. [ARTICLE]

Flames In Fashionable Church.

New York, Aug. B.—St. Thomas’ Episcopal church, at Fifth avenue and Fifty-Third street, one of the most richly furnished religious edifices in America, was wrecked by fire. Within a block of the ruined church are the houses of half a score of the country’* wealthiest men. The Hotel St. Regis is scarcely one block away and scores of the finest city homes in America are in the section of which St. Thomas’ church was practically the center. Th* fire was confined to the church.