Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — FOUR SAVED BY TELEPHONE [ARTICLE]

FOUR SAVED BY TELEPHONE

Man Calls Physician Before Becoming Unconscious from Gas. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 14. —A telephone saved four lives In a house filled with gas from a defective jet. Samuel Spesshardt, 547 North Temple avenue, found his son unconscious in an upper room. He rushed down stairs, telephoned for a physician, and saw his wife lying on the floor. Then he himself was overcome. His broth-er-in-law, Henry Bartel, tried to get to a door, but he also toppled over. When the physician entered the house he found the four persons near death.