Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — SENATOR AT A HOTEL FIRE SAVES 4 LIVES [ARTICLE]

SENATOR AT A HOTEL FIRE SAVES 4 LIVES

Swings Them Circus Fashion From Upper Floor Window. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 15.—The body of Isaac E. Lambert, the Emporia attorney and politician, who was a victim of the lire that destroyed the Copeland hotel has been found. It is believed that he was suffocated while trying to make his way down a smoke tilled hallway and was burned to death. It is probable that all of the fourteen injured guests will recover. Representative A. W. Smith is the most seriously hurt. State Senator J. W. Stewart tossed a mattress from a fourth story window to the roof of an adjoining twostory building. Taking T. B. Murdock, editor of the El Dorado Republican by the wrists Stewart, in circus leap-for-life fashion, swung Murdock clear of the burning hotel and dropped him iu safety to the mattress. The senator did the same with. Editor W. Y. Morgan of the Hutchinson News and with Mrs. .Morgan. The woman failed to alight squarely on the mattress and broke one of her legs. Senator Stewart jumped down to th S mattress after making sure that all were out of the building.