Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1915 — Gasoline Stove Causes Fire Alarm. [ARTICLE]

Gasoline Stove Causes Fire Alarm.

A fire alarm was sent in about 11:30 Thursday forenoon from J. P. Hammond’s new house on Cullen street. A gasoline stove had been filled too full and, when lighted, the whole thing became a mass of flames. No particular damage resulted except for the smoking up of some of the bright new walls of the house, and no doubt Mrs. Hammond thinks that was damage enough. She had smothered out the flames before the fire company arrived.