Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1909 — PRIZE CATTLE DESTROYED [ARTICLE]

PRIZE CATTLE DESTROYED

Fire on Farm Near Peru Causes Death of Forty-Six Head.

Peru. Ind., Jan. B.—John H. Miller, of Peru, noted for his World's Fair prize Polled Durham cattle, suffereda loss of 325,000 by fire at his farm just north of here.

One of his large stock barns, valued at 33,000, was burned and forty-six head of cattle perished in the blaze. Nine other head were seriously burned and may have to be killed. The cattle were thoroughbred Polled Durhams.