Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — Wiped Out an Insurance Fund. [ARTICLE]

Wiped Out an Insurance Fund.

The burning of the docks of the Illinois Central railroad at New Orleans in the big fire the other day inflicted n loss of $1,700,000. This does not fall upon the regular insurance company but upon the railroad which insured ita property and which wipes out its insurance fund.