Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1910 — WRECKS TRUCK TO SAVE YOUNG WOMAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WRECKS TRUCK TO SAVE YOUNG WOMAN.

Frederick Mayer, driver of a hook and ladder truck, is dying In a Brookfire h as P®* ol,llllll6 a splendid deed of heroism while driving fire. His horses were on a full run when directly In his path Mayer saw a young woman standing panic-stricken on a cross-walk. On one side close th^tan^ 004 a } rolley car flHed with passengers; on the other was one of the tall Iron pillars of the elevated railway. Had the driver kept on he would have run down the woman; by turning to the right he would have endangered the liveß of the passengers. Mayer yelled to the firemen clustered along the sides of the truck to Jump, gave the reins a mighty tug and down” 1 *.“? l ?? n p,l,ar ‘ There waa a crash - the horses were thrown h,* 7 aS overturne d and Mayer was pinned under It with skull fractured, leg broken and body crushed.