Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — Flames. [ARTICLE]

Flames.

Five persons we burned to death by the destruction of the dwelling house of W. Bownes, at Chester, N. Y., Tuesday. Four hundred thonsaud-leet of lumber and 200,000 shingles were burned at Ludington, Mich. Thirty stores and dwellings, constituting the village of Waldron, Mich., were destroyed. Six business houses at Greenfield, 111., caused a loss of 160,000.