Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. TEN PERILED BY FLAMES Three Suffer Minor Injuries in Frankfort Lodging House—Children in Panic Jump From SecondStory. Frankfort, June 14.—Ten persons sleeping in rooms adjoining a restaurant on the north side of the public square narrowly escaped death in a fire that destroyed their quarters and caused a loss of about SI,OOO. John Scherer, age eleven, suffered severe bruises and a broken thumb in a fall from a fire escape. Edmund Scherer, age thirteen, was painfully cut about the legs when he jumped on the awning of an adjoining building and crashed through a glass. John Myers was severely burned and his Viands and face cut by glass as he escaped from the second floor of the building. Mrs. Ella Scherer of Indianapolis, who runs the restaurant and lodging house, and her four children were forced to take refuge on a veranda, from which they were rescued bymeans of ropes. The two children ho were injuted became excited and jumped from the veranda.