Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — BIG FIRE AT FRANKFORT. [ARTICLE]

BIG FIRE AT FRANKFORT.

Entire Business Block Wiped Out Yesterday Morning. Fire starting in a tailor shop in the north part of the block directly east of the public square and north of the Coulter house at 8:45 a. ml yesterday, caused a great amount of damage, and when the Monon northtJound train came through there at 8:30 it wa§ thought the entire block was doomed to destruction and might not be confined to it alone. Thrasher’s big dry goodS .store, Snow’s grocery, Dinwiddie’s hardware store, Cushwa’s big restaurant and ice cream pavilion, Hayes & Go’s. grocery, and several, other smaller concerns were in this block, and the fire fighters were hampered by,-lack of sufficient apparatus to cope with the flames, said passengers who got on the train there, and the opinion was generally expressed that several hundred thousand dollars damage would

be done before the fire could be got under