Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — Fire at Pitman-Moore Farm. [ARTICLE]

Fire at Pitman-Moore Farm.

Indianapolis, Feb. 8. —Fire, wliicM broke out in a pen building at Moreland Biological farm, hear Zionsville, caused a loss of $40,000 to the PitmanMoore company laboratories. Despite this loss, which is practically ail covered by insurance, the concern will not be handicapped in its operation. Wilbur Jones, who discovered the fire; Will Utterbach, George Galloway and Basil Ottinger succeededjn saving al' the office records, considerable laborti tory apparatus and several ot feed. About two hundred hyperim- ' munlzed animals from which antihogcholera serum is obtained were driven to safety from the burning pen.