Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — Farmer Burned Seriously. [ARTICLE]

Farmer Burned Seriously.

Lafayette, June 7.—Elstun Ebrsman of Mulberry is in a critical condition as the result of a gasoline explosion that occurred when he carried a lighted lantern into his barn to get gasoline for his automobile. The fire whicb followed destroyed the barn, automobile, farming implements and a considerable quantity of grain and hay.