Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1909 — INDIANA WOMEN SAVE TOWN [ARTICLE]

INDIANA WOMEN SAVE TOWN

Wives and Sweethearts In Bucket Brigade at Cayuga—s2s,ooo Loss. Cayuga, Ind., Nov. 5. —Women who worked beside their husbands and sweethearts are credited with saving this town from being wiped out by a Are which destroyed four business buildings at a loMkof $25,000. An engine company, fA>m Danville, 111., thirty-five’ miles north, arrived but the apparatus was not unloaded from the special train, the valiant work of the citizens having checked the flames.