Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1901 — West Baden Had a Bad ’un. [ARTICLE]

West Baden Had a Bad ’un.

The Mineral Springs hotel at West Baden, the largest hotel in Indiana, caught fire at an early hour Friday morning. There were several hundred guests iu the house at the time but all escaped with their lives, and without serious injuries. The hotel was valued at $200,000. It is a familiar plaoe to the considerable number of Rensselaer people who have made health or pleasure sojourns at West Baden during the past few years,