People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — Fire. [ARTICLE]

Fire.

Last Thursday night about eleven o'clock the fire department was called out to extinguish the flames that had got under headway in the barn on Walter* Porter’s property, the residence of Tom Sigler, on Main street. By the time the • fire company arrived on the scene the fire was beyond control and nothing could be done. Nothing was stalled or stored in the barn and the loss centers in the building alone which was probably worth S3OO, with no insurance. The fire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary.