Rutland Herald Wednesday Morning, December 17, 1930 SPRINGFIELD HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE Overheated Stove Causes Loss of $3000; Family Left Without Clothes SPRINGFIELD, Dec. 16. - Fire, believed to have been started by an overheated stove, today destroyed a two-story dwelling house on Baker Heights here, occupied by John Bouchier and family, with an estimated loss off $3000. The family lost everything but the clothes which they were wearing. There was no one at the house when the fire broke out. Mr. and Mrs. Bouchier and their daughter were visiting at the home of Mrs. Bernice Phillet. Coming from the home of Mrs. Phillet, Bouchier saw flames suddenly burst through the roof of his house. He sounded a fire alarm, but when the department arrived it was found impossible to lay a line to the house, on account of its height from the water. Bouchier saved a horse, which was in a small stable next to the house, but the light frame dwelling was consumed by the flames in less than half an hour. Transcribed by Rebecca W. Tucker