Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — SAVED FIVE LIVES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAVED FIVE LIVES.

The Hero of the Hotel Royal Fire Receives a Suitable Reward. At the recent Hotel Royal fire in York, in which nineteen persons lost their lives, there was none who did braver service in the work of rescue than Sergeant Vaughan, of Patrol No. 3, and as a testimony of his worth the Board of Fire Underwriters have presented him with a beautiful gold medal—the sixth they have issued to members of the patrol in twelve years. Mr. Vaughan’s bravery is well stated in the inauguration address of President Blagden, from which we quote: “At a window in one of the upper stories was gathered a group with

anxious faces—a father, mother, and child—waiting, perhaps, to die together. At the next window, in an adjoining building, appeared a sergeant of> our patrol. The 1 / distance was toogreat to reach. Without hesitation, he threw himself down.

resting one arm upon the sill and entwining his leg around a telephone wire, fortunately conveniently near. With his other arm, one by one he conducted this group over his prostrate body, as a bridge, to the window of safety. “Ascending to the rorff, he discovered a man standing upon the sill of a window in another portion of the house, doubting whether to meet death by jumping or wait to be overtaken by the fire. Shouting to him to wait and he would save him, he rushed to the street, and, calling upon his comrades to follow’, ascended to the roof of another adjoining building. Hastily throwing off his coat, his companions holding him by the legs, he threw himself head downward over the cornice, and, with their assistance, raised this man of over 200 pounds in weight to the roof.” Mr. Vaughan saved another life, making five in all.

SERGEANT VAUGHAN.