Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1914 — Four Burned to Death In Fire at Merrillville. [ARTICLE]

Four Burned to Death In Fire at Merrillville.

Three of the children of Joseph Stoltz and his aged mother were consumed in the burning of his farm home near Merrillville, Lake county, Friday night, Mr. and Mrs. Stoltz were rescued by jumping from a window. Their son had been to a 'children’s party in Merrillville and when he returned home he found the house ablaze He could not enter but shouted a warning from the side of the house, below the window of the bedroom his parents were in. They were scarcely able to escape and the invalid grandmother and the three children perished in the flames,