People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Fire in a Lumbar District. [ARTICLE]

Fire in a Lumbar District.

Lacrosse, Wis., alarcb 25.—A destructive fire which at one time threatened to destroy thd entire northern portion of the city occurred here Tuesday. It started in the lumber yard of the N. B. Holway estate .from a spark of a passing locomotive on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. A fierce gale spread the flames with lightning rapidity among the huge pjles of luinber along the eastern bank of B¥ack river. Inside of three hours over 5,000,000 feet of lumber had been wiped out. Another fire was started at the Sawyer & Austin mill, but here the' damage was not so great. The entire loss is estimated at over $200,000. The insurance is not known.