Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — FIRE BADLY DAMAGES HOUSE [ARTICLE]

FIRE BADLY DAMAGES HOUSE

Of Dr. Frank McCarthy, of Tsrrw Haute, Formerly of Renaeelaer. The following dispatch from Terrei Haute to Monday’s- -Indianapolis Star tells of the damage done to the apartment house of Dr. Frank McCarthy, formerly of Rensselaer and a son of Mr. and Mrs. George D. McCarthy, still residents of this city: "James Noles, 76 years old, Janitor of the apartment house owned by Dr. Frank McCarthy, 88 Potomao avenue, Edgewood Grove, died from suffocation efrly toduy In a Hr* which badly damaged the building. The body of the Janitor, who slept in an apartment in the baseinenL wan found near the back door by Coroner W. F. Willien, Dr. McCarthy and Kwlng Miller, who lived In the building. “Cuts and bruises on the bodyshowed that the man had made a fight to escape from the building. Tfie body was not badly burned, only one spot on the face and scortched! clothes showing that he had passed through the biasing corridor in the basement. "The fire endangered the lives ’Of the four families.”