Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — LAUNDRY CATCHES FIRE. [ARTICLE]

LAUNDRY CATCHES FIRE.

The Haas Laundry got on fire Tuesday afternoon about 5 o’clock and an alarm was turned in. The fire company did not get there as promptly as was expected on account of the team being at work somewhere in town. After they did get to the fire it required a hard fisht to get at it, as it was between the ceiling and roof, so that water could not be thrown directly on to it. Mr. Haas thinks the fire had been burning since the noon hour, and that it caught on a joist that had been conviently placed against the chimney by the contractor who built the building, and this Joist had got so dry and the room so hot that when Mr. Haas opened the door of the drying room it instantly burst into flame on the inside and above the ceiling in the loft. The loss will not be much to the building, and to Mr. Haas will consist of the work that had to be done over again.