Bio: Wuethrich, John (House fire - 1933)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Wuethrich

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (28 July 1933)

GREENWOOD, July 28 - The farm home of John D. Wuethrich, Jr., two and one-half miles southeast of here was burned to the ground this morning with a loss of $6,500. The building was only partially insured.

The origin of the blaze, which was discovered at 9:30 a.m. is uncertain. A brush fire was burning on the Wuethrich farm at the time but is believed to have been too far from the house to have caused the fire. A defective chimney is advanced as another theory on the cause of the conflagration.

An alarm was turned in to Greenwood, and a number of Greenwood People hurried to the scene to join farmers who were fighting the blaze, but the home could not be saved. A woodshed and a milk house also burned.

The furniture was carried from the house and little of it was damaged. It was insured. Mrs. Wuethrich and a hired man and a hired girl were alone on the farm at the time, Mr. Wuethrich being absent on a milk route.