Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — STATE CAPITOL BURNED. [ARTICLE]

STATE CAPITOL BURNED.

Lightning Sets Fire to Missouri Building and Valuable Rec- » ords Are Destroyed. Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. .5.The Missouri State Capitol building burned alst night. It was struck by lightning shortly beforeeight o’clock and the en-

tire building burned with man_V of the valuable records, including House of Representative Journals of the present session. The Senate records were saved. The fire started in the cupola of the dome and spread rapidly, It had, made such headway before the local fire department got to it, that it was unable io throwwater at that height to stop the fire, which soon spread to the hall of the House of Representatives and later to ithe Senate chamber and falling inflammable material soon caused the entire building to be in ruins. In addition to the local fire department the penitentiary department responded with a hundred convicts, but all efforts to save the building proved fruitless. The present state building was erected in 1839 and cost $350,000, in 1887 the building was remod eled at a cost of $250,000.