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Following a choir rehearsal on 13 December 1899, the gas furnace was left on so the church would be warm for Sunday services in the morning.  However, by 2 a.m. Sunday, the church was on fire.  A strong wind hindered efforts to contain the fire and in the morning there was only a ruin left. Parishioners managed to remove one stained glass window before the fire reached it, but everything else was gone. Click on the newspaper to read one of the stories.