Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1916 — LOST HIS MEMORY AT FIRE [ARTICLE]

LOST HIS MEMORY AT FIRE

Indiana Man, Who Was in Iroquois Disaster in Chicago, Forgot His Past Life. Binghamton, N. Y.—After being given up as dead 18 years, Milton Summons. Kokomo, Ind., real estate dealer, has returned to his mother, Mrs. Cecelia Simmons, Syracuse. Simmons tells a remarkable story of his loss of memory resulting from the Iroquois fire in Chicago. He was operating a spot light in ths,balcony when the fire broke out and he’was plunged 60 feet into the bodies below, but was * rescued. The fall caused loss of mem/ ory, and after two, months *in a hospital he recovered, going to Tipton, Ind., where he engaged in business and married. Later he went Into the real estate business in Kokomo, where he now resides. Increasing pressure on the brain from the injury resulted in‘the necessity for an operatiop last winter, and following this he gradually regained memory of his mother and his former » Ufa. *