Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1909 — FIRE ON EAST SIDE. [ARTICLE]

FIRE ON EAST SIDE.

Small Blaze at Jesse Snyder's Called Out Fire Company Yesterday Morning. The fire department was called to one of, Hiram Day s properties in the east part of town, occupied by Jesse Snyder, yesterday morning about 10:30 to fight a blaze that had broken out in the kitchen roof. The fire team was standing near ■the Mrs. Loughridge residence when the alarm was turned in and consequently arrived on the scene of action in record breaking time. Asst. Chief Rhoades' men were unable for sometime to reach the blaze in the upstairs on account of the flames that swept across the ! stairway, •and it was not until a hole could be made in the roof and I the flames reached through the opening thus made that the fire ■could be successfully battled with. The building is covered by insurance and the damage to plaster and roof will ambunt to scarcely S2OO. '