People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — OPERA HOUSE BURNED. [ARTICLE]

OPERA HOUSE BURNED.

English FoUy Company, In a Tour in Ohio, Loses Its Wardrobe. Delaware, 0., Feb. 3.—ln Prospect, Marion county, Wednesday night, the opera house, valued at $3,000; the electric light plant, $10,000; Cook’s residence, SI,OOO, and the entire wardrobe, worth $2,000, of the English Folly company, were consumed by fire. There was no insurance. S. Wyatt, part owner of the burned property, was struck by falling electric light wires and seriously injured. The blaze caught in the dressing-room of the opera hall as the company was preparing for the evening performance.