People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1897 — WIPED OFF THE MAP. [ARTICLE]

WIPED OFF THE MAP.

Every House in Mars, Pa., Said to Have , Been Destroyed. Pittsburg, Feh. 13. —Intelligence reached this city last night that the little town of Mars, on the Pitteburg and Western Railload, was burning. The place is about twenty miles west of here, but no particulars were available because of the poor telegraph and telephone facilities. The nearest telegraph office is Downeyville, with but one wire, and that a railroad circuit, which is being used exclusively for railroad business. The town of Mars ha* only about 800 inhabitants, and it is understood every house has been consumed.