Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — A Touching Scene. [ARTICLE]

A Touching Scene.

A very touching and dramatic scene was witnessed at the Underwriters' Board room, on Nassau street, New York, recently, on the occasion of the presentation of a gold medal to Flro I’atrolman A. 8. Johnson, of Fire Patrol No. 5, in commemoration of his brave rescue of three lives from the Columbus avenue and Ninety-fourth street fire last month. The rescue was remarkable for its daring and perilous character. The three persons,' Mr. J.W. Kern, his child and Miss Annie Frechtel, were hommed in by the fire in the fifth story of the burning building. Johnson crept along the molding from the adjoining house and rescued them. Mr. Kern supplemented the gold medal with a locket studded with diamonds, and he gave such a touching and graphic description of the rescued people’s peril, their agony and their relief, that even the rough firemen present wept, while poor Johnson, who had struggled hard to chew gum and appear indifferent, broke down and failed to keep baqjc the tears that fought their way to his eyes as resolutely as he fought his way through the flames. Honor to such heroes?