Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — FIRE DESTROYS SCHOOL HACK [ARTICLE]

FIRE DESTROYS SCHOOL HACK

A darn Vinyard drove a school hack Tuesday and hitched at the hitch rack north of William Sullivan’s store. About. Joe Sullivan and Clarence Dixon noticed that smoke was coming from the wagon, and quickly unhitched the team from the wagon. An alarm of fire was turned in but the wagon was pushed across the road to a hydrant and the fire extinguished before the department got out. The upholstering and body of the hack was ruined, but the running gear was uninjured. The asbestos between the stove and the woodwork had become detached and the woodwork had fired from the stove. —Wolcott Enterprise.