Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1893 — A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.

A Load of Hay Fired bv a Trolley Wire. Evan Hfinsley, a farmer living near Indianapolis, went to the city, Friday, with a load of hay. He passed under the wires of the electric street railway to order to go to the hay market. Soon af*er he was startled by a man who ran from the side-

walk shouting, “Your hay is on fire!” Looking around he saw a blaze several feest high. Hensley barely escaped without injury. The hay was consumed and also the hay rick, but the wagon and the horses were saved without damage. Street car traffic was delayed for an hour. The only plausible theory on which the accident can be explained is that the hay came to contact with the trolley wires, forming a circuit and thus igniting the blaze.