Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1912 — Lost Life While Trying to Save That [ARTICLE]

Lost Life While Trying to Save That

of Another. Mrs. Philip Paulus of Newton tp., returned Monday afternoon from Chicago, where she was called Friday by the serious condition of -her brother, 'Minor ißentJey, who was so badly burned id a fire that destroyed the barns of tine Commonwealth Edison Co., a week previous, that death resulted Saturday morning.

Mr. Benitley was watchmen in the barns and returning to the lower floor from a trip upstairs to answer a telephone, he found that the lower part was a -mass of flames. He could have escaped himself, but thought of an old man whom he supposed was sleeping on the hay, and made an unsuccessful effort to find him. By this time escape was wholly cut off in front and the barred windows in the rear cut off escape there. When rescued he was so badly burned that death resulted a week later. The old man whom he sought to rescue had already gotten out, it seems. Mr. Bentley leaves a wife and one child, a daughter. The body wap shipped to Oxford, Ind., his old home, for' burial Monday.