Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1905 — Fatal Fire in Flour Mills. [ARTICLE]

Fatal Fire in Flour Mills.

Toronto. Ont., Sept. 19.—One fireman was killed, another seriously injured and two others slightly hurt in a fire that destroyed the Brown Flour mills on the Esplanada. Within ten minutes after the firemen got to work on the building the main floor collapsed. burying four of them. Cap tain Worre.’l was instantly killed and Captain Sargent probably fatally In jured. Firemen Robinson and Fox were cut and bruised. The mill contained 10,000 barrels of flour and 300. 000 bushels of wheat. The total loss is estimated at $200,000. Reyes Would Be Dictator. Panama, Sept. 21.—Unconfirmed reports have reached here that Genera! Reyes, president of Colombia, had declared himself dictator on Sept. 8 aud Imprisoned tlie members of the supreme court at Bogota. Mobs, angered by this action, attacked the presidential palace and were fired on by troojrs, who killed or wounded many of the rioters. The reports say that revolutions have been started iu Antioquia and Santander.