Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — NOT SNAKES, BUT FIRE. [ARTICLE]

NOT SNAKES, BUT FIRE.

A Liquor-Crazed Man Sees an Imaginary Fire and Leaps from a Window, Fatallj Injuring Himself. I Boston special.] Peter M-c Cary, who had been drinking, awoke about 1 o'clock this morning with the idea that the house was on fire and that it was his duty to save the lives of the inmates. After having conducted a number of imaginary persons to a window and sent them to the ground, as he imagined, by a safety chute, he decided to save himself in the same manner. His wife, by this time being awakened by the noise, was horrified to see him making preparations to dive out of the window, head first With a bound she landed upon the floor and succeeded in grasping one of her husband’s legs just as he shot out of the window. Shrieking for help, she still hung on, but before the arrival of aid her strength gave out and she was obliged to let go her hold, her husband falling to the sidewalk below, where he was picked up unconscious and conveyed to the city hospital. On account of the terrible injuries received, there are but slight hopes of bis recovery.