Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1911 — FIREMEN SAVE TWO LIVES [ARTICLE]

FIREMEN SAVE TWO LIVES

Rescue Doctor and Daughter Who Are Suffocated by Smoke. Albany, Ind.. Dec. 29.—Awakened by a dense smoke, Dr. H. H. McBride and family discovered that their house was on fire, and Dr Mcßride and his daughter. Miss Estella Mcßride, had a narrow escape from burning to death.

Suffocated by the smoke, they were taken from a second-story window by the firemen. Mrs. Mcßride managed to grope her way through the blinding smoke from the burning building and give an alarm. The fire, which originated in the kitchen, Is believed to have been of incendiary origin. The house was badly damaged.