Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — Fire Destroys Three Barns Thursday Forenoon. [ARTICLE]

Fire Destroys Three Barns Thursday Forenoon.

The fire company was called out shortly before noon Thursday by a fire which started ’in the Fred Yeiter barn, about one block northeast of the Monon station, and before the flames were extinguished this barn and the barns on the Thrawls place and the Robert Burris property nearby were all burned to the ground. There was hay in the barns and other inflamable material and the fire company done w'ell to confine the flames as well as they did. Some chickens were lost and a stack of hay and two hogs at the Yeiter barn, while two other hogs were burned so badly that it was thought they would die oskhave to be killed. John Burris had been occupying the Burris barn as a residence, but had moved most of his household effects out. The losses were partly covered by insurance, but at this writing we were unable to learn the amounts.