Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — Jack’s Death In the Flames. [ARTICLE]

Jack’s Death In the Flames.

“One-half of our town Is mourning th* death of as noble a beast as ever lived,” said Charles Y. Hunter of Memphis. “It wouldn’t surprise me to see somebody take a hold of the matter and put up a monument to the memory of ‘Jack.’ Let me tell you about him. He belonged to a grocer out on the outskirts of tho town, and early the other morning he gave up his life to save others. Soruo time before daylight the grocer, whoso name was Rosenstein, was awakened by the barking of the dog. At first he paid no attention to it, but the constant noise angered him and he got up, and taking a stick opened the door, intending to quiet Jack with a licking. As he opened the door the dog rushed past him and bounded into the sleeping apartment. Barking loudly, he pulled at the clothing on the children’s bed till he pulled it off, and with his paws shoved the little ones out on the floor. The grocer then discovered that the entire front of his little house was in flames, and that he had scarcely time to get his wife and children out of the house. They wore only their night-clothes, and barely escaped with their lives. A* few minutes later the house was a mass of smouldering charcoal.’ When they cafnc to look for Jack, it was found that he had lost his way in the smoke and had burned to death, after saving the family from the fate that he might easily have avoided himself. —[St Louis Globe-Democrat.