Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1909 — MORE PARTICULARS OF MRS. PENWRIGHT’S DEATH. [ARTICLE]

MORE PARTICULARS OF MRS. PENWRIGHT’S DEATH.

More full particulars have reached The Democrat of the terrible accident which befell Mrs. Lois Penwright of near Sharon on Monday of last week, which resulted in her death. She did not start the fire herself, we are told, it having been started by unknown parties, and she went out with a broom and attempted to put it out. The broom, burned from the handle, was found near one of the hay stacks that burned. When Mr. Gates and Arthur Kuchler—the latter first saw the fire—got to her she had another broom in her hand and was still fighting the fire, close to a stack of hay that was saved. The woman’s clothing was practically all burned off when they got to her, but she walked to her house about ten rods away, and she was then wrapped in a blanket and taken to Mrs. Gish’s where she died. She did not want to leave the fire until assured that the men would put it out. She was conscious to the last. Her age was 7 4 years, Instead of 79 as had been reported to us.