Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1916 — Milroy Baptist Chorch [?]ed by Lightning. [ARTICLE]

Milroy Baptist Chorch [?]ed by Lightning.

The Baptist church in Milroy tp. was struck hy lightning about 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon and burned to the ground. The fire started there in the belfry,' and while the people of the neighborhood were able to remove the eontents of the building they had no way of putting out the fire of that height, and were compelled to stand by and see it burned to the ground. It is understood that the building was insured for from between SBOO and $1,200. It was erected in 1892 and was a good substantial edifice and the only church building in that township.