Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1898 — Heavy Loss by Fire. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Loss by Fire.

Cincinnati, July 12. —A fire involving heavy loss broke out Monday in the manufacturing district at Harriet and Sloo streets. It was first discovered in the dismantled warehouse of the McGill Grate & Mantle company, and spread rapidly to the yards of the E.D. Albro Lumber company and other combustibles in 1 hat district. A fourstory tenement house was in the line of fire and was destroyed, the inmates making narrow escapes. Total loss will reach $150,000.