Orrstown House Burns, Five Homeless

On April 7, 1921 at 7:00 p.m. one mile east of Orrstown a house and all the contents were destroyed by fire. A faulty flue in the center of the home caused a fire that destroyed a 2-½-story brick and frame occupied duplex. One of the residents saw smoke and flames coming from the flue and turned in the alarm. Before neighbors could arrive the house was enveloped in flames. It is unknown which fire company from Shippensburg answered the alarm if one even did as the paper reported that efforts of the firefighters to save the out buildings were successful, as only the wash house burned. The term firefighters could be referring to the towns’ folks forming a bucket brigade. A family of five was displaced and a damage estimate is not available.