Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — FLAMES SWEEP HINCKLEY [ARTICLE]

FLAMES SWEEP HINCKLEY

Damage in City Is Heavy and Wiping Out of Place Was Feared. Hinckley, 111., Nov. 24. —This town of 2,000 inhabitants, fifty miles of Chicago on the Burlington railroad, was swept by fire and it was feared the entire town would he wiped out. The fire started shortly after 8:30 o’clock in the Burlington railroad elevator, in the business section of the town, supposedly from a Spark from a passing railroad train. Within fifteen minutes the flames had Spread to the lumber yard of Togue Brothers, leaving it in ruins and then to the Burlington depot. The town has only a volunteer fire department, and, with its hand apparatus, was finable to cope with the blaze.