Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — Disastrous Fire at Morocco. [ARTICLE]

Disastrous Fire at Morocco.

A fire broke oat Sunday night in the rear of McDonald A Riffle’s West Side restaurant at Morocoo, and after destroying that building, which belonged to fi. T. Hope, the flames communicated to Irvin’s harness and hardware store, and to the Handley photograph gallery np stairs, the vacant room formerly occupied by John Darling’s saloon was then burned, and then Bell A Atkinson’s barber shop and Isaac Fnrdy’s meat market were burned. Tbs fire was halted before it reached the large store of J. D. Kessler. Most of the buildings were frime structures, and there is said to have been very little insurance.