Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1859 — FIRE. [ARTICLE]

FIRE.

We rfgret to announce the destruction by fire, last M' n-’r-y evening, of the resi donee of George McCoy, th.vt large white frame building about seven miles from here* on the Bradford road. The fire broke out between six and seven o’clock, and is -rupposed to have caught from the kitchen stove-pipe. The house was totally consumed, the family only succeeding in saving their clot iug and a n*>Js-, tion o! the bedding. The loss is supposed to be about $2,000. Two c; three of the family were also injured, but not seriously, we believe. Mr McCoy, 011 discovering the fire, mounted a horse atid rode in haste to gather his neighbors. The horse threw him and hurt him considerably. Mrs. McCoy and the hired girl went un stairs to secure the clothing and bedding, and while there the fire gained on them so rapidly as td cut off their retreat down stairs. They then passed out the second story windows on to the portico,and from there jumped to the ground, injuring themselves by the fall, but breaking no bones.