Max Schlund's Hotel

In the short sketch of Max Schlund, Sr's life that I have previously posted, it briefly mentions the hotel that Max and Wilhelmina bought and sold in Valparaiso, Indiana. As the story goes between the time the Civil war ended and Max came to settle in Nebraska he and his wife tried their hand at hotel ownership. 

"Max bought a large expensive railroad hotel in Valparaiso Indiana but the work proved to be too much for them both so he sold it, but before it was paid for it burned to the ground and the insurance policy had lapsed. They lost everything they had in that fire."

I previously found a census record to corroborate the Schlund's living in Valparaiso. They are in the 1870 census. Line 28 of this page.

More recently I found a newspaper article that describes the event. It does not mention the great financial loss the Schlund's suffered, but it gives a good account of the fire that destroyed the building.