Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1898 — Two Lives Lost. [ARTICLE]

Two Lives Lost.

Prescott, A. T., April ft.—Fire at Congress mining camp destroyed nearly every business house in what is known us Lower Town Tuesday. There was no water and the fire spread rapidly. Loss, $40,000. James Vlgante, proprietor of the Silver Dollar saloon, and a woman named Gertie Tomlinson, alias Graham, were burned to death.