Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — FIRE AT STAR CITY RESULTS IN A DEATH [ARTICLE]

FIRE AT STAR CITY RESULTS IN A DEATH

Wife of Dr. Stephens Swoons When She Sees Son Fighting Fire and Does Not Recover. Mrs. Dr. Stephens, of Star City, died this Wednesday morning when she saw her son, who was helping to fight the fire that had consumed the elevator and was burning the Odd Fellows building, with a handkerchief tied about his head. The elevator was totally destroyed by fire and it set fire to the Odd Fellows building, which seemed to be doomed to destruction when W. L. Bott telephoned here about it. Young Stephens was on top of the building and had a handkerchief tied about his head. His mother, who was watching the fire, thought that he had been injured and she fainted. Efforts were made to restore her but they were unavailing and she soon died. She was about €0 years of age. When word reached here that the elevator was on fire, W. L. Bott, of the Jasper County Telephone Co., who came here from Star City, left for there in his automobile and telephoned the particulars back to A. L. Clark. It was not known how the elevator caught fire.