People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — A WAREHOUSE BURNED. [ARTICLE]

A WAREHOUSE BURNED.

Fire Causes Considerable Damage at the Illinois Penitentiary. Joliet, 111., Nov. 6. —A warehouse just outside the walls of the Illinois state penitentiary took fire at 11:20 a. m. Friday. The fire started in the middle of the building in the broomcorn stock, and from there went to the chair stock, where the fire wall stopped the flames from going into the box lumber stock of Selz, Schwab & Co. The state’s loss will be about <7,500, with no insurance. Selz, Schwab & Co.’s loss by water on the lumbei' will be about <4OO, fully insured. There was no excitement among the convicts inside the wall and they did not know a fire was so near them. A lot of convicts working in the building and outside rallied to the aid of the officers, doing good work in saving the stock. Warder l Allen had about $1,500 worth of household goods of his own stored in the building and ex-Warden Dement bad some goods stored, which were destroyed.