Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — Another Fire Alarm. [ARTICLE]

Another Fire Alarm.

For the first time since the organization of the fire company, an alarm of fire was sounded, last Thursday afternoon The alarm was sounded for the Fourth Ward, and word was passed that the barn of Dr. I. B. Washburn, the county treasurer, was on fire. Members of the fire company, with some volunteer assistants, soon ran out '’the little chemical, and, considering the great distance to the Doctor’s place, about’ seven blocks, they made a pretty quick run to the scene. On arriving they found the fire not in the barn but in a large'pile of old hay and the remains of some old sheds and pig pens, Wry near the barn. They also found that the barn had been in great danger, and with the barn also the residence, but that a number: of the, neighboring women headed by Mr. R. F. Priest, had been carrying water and kept the fire under control and saved the barn, and hhuse. As it was the loss was hut nominal. ! The origin of .the fire is unknowrf.