Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — 22 HORSES DIE IN FIRE [ARTICLE]

22 HORSES DIE IN FIRE

Big Plow Plant at South Bend, lnd M Suffers Severe Loss. At South Bend, Ind., the bams and lumber yard of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works were destroyed by fire and twenty-two horses were cremated. The loss is estimated at from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. Insurance of about $50,000 was carried. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to have been started by a tramp, who with a pipe in his mouth, was seen earlier in the night, to climb the high fence surrounding the yards He probably sought sleep in the barns, which stood in the center of the yards, and set the building on fire with a spark from his pipe. One man. Fred Wagner, was injured by a falling beam