Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — BASKET FACTORY BURNED. [ARTICLE]

BASKET FACTORY BURNED.

. I Loss of $25,000 Suffered by a Peru Firm—lnsurance SIO,OOO. Peru, Ind., Jan. 10.--A loss of i $25,000 was caused by the burning of the Peru basket factory last 'night. It was insured for SIO,OOO. The fire was caused by an employe using a torch to find a chisel that ; had dropped through a crack in the | floor of the engine room. The floor i was soaked with oil, and the fire burned so rapidly that Alonzo Baldwin, the engineer, and Vesper Hall, head sawyer, were severely burned jin making their escape. The factory was owned by Georgq R. Chamlberiain, A. R. Chamberlain and Thomas Keyes, who employed seventy-five persons.