News: Medford (Sackman Barn Fire - 1943)
Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surname: Sackman
----Source: The Star News (Medford, WI) 9/27/2018
Originally published in the Star News, September 23, 1943
The barn of Mrs. Elsie Sackman, section 26, Medford, a mile east of the city was
completely destroyed by fire Saturday evening about 8:00 o’clock.
Mrs. Sackman believes the fire started from the explosion of a kitchen lamp,
which she had been using for the past three weeks as the heating unit of an
improvised brooder for 60 chickens she was raising.
Her son George first noticed the fire. It took the barn and its contents so
rapidly that the Sackmans were able to save only the pigs, which were in a shed
attached to the barn. The cows were outside at the time of the fire.
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