Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1900 — Causes of Fires. [ARTICLE]

Causes of Fires.

Children playing with matches caused ninety-one fires last year. Cigars and cigarettes caused 912; electrical wires and lights. 750; .boilers and engines, 387; incendiarism,, 0,744; lightning. Jr 7GO; spontaneous combustion, 1,235; six were due to sun’s rays. Tbs cause of 13,127 fires were not discovered.