All that's left standing in the rural community of 150 are the town hall, telephone office and two welding and auto repair shops. The proud mother is embarrassed at the accommodations and refuses to give her name to a reporter, and she asks the police to keep the family's identity confidential. The family is from Ashland, and the father, a farm hand, is offered a job at a local farm. Hollis Gunyon, killed in the war, is buried with full military honors in Elkhorn. Chairs are put in every available place in the Methodist Church to seat the many friends of the popular son of Mr. and Mrs. V.M. Gunyon.
Several firemen sustain minor injuries, and two narrowly escape major injuries.
Curtis Avery of the Janesville department is bruised but not trapped by falling bricks, and Edward Polglaze of the Beloit department has glass shards fall on his head, only moments after his captain put a helmet on him. The cause of the fire is unknown. The state recommends replacing all mattresses, providing mattress covers, placing garbage cans in cellblocks, replacing food-serving pans, using aluminum or stainless steel drinking cups and having prisoners scrub the cellblocks daily. City officials hope to persuade the county to buy the machine for use by all municipalities or to buy it jointly with Beloit. A Janesville police car and city bus collide at Jackson and Milwaukee streets, and the bus careens through the window of the Parish and Bailey Drug Store on the corner.