Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Dies to Save Her Husband. [ARTICLE]

Dies to Save Her Husband.

Chicago dispatch: Rushing to her husband’s rescue, Mrs. Julius Yankee met death by fire. The husband, equally heroic, was seriously, if not fataily, injured, for after his wife had extinguished the flames that had seized his clothing he turned to aid her and barely escaped with his life. The tragedy occurred in the kitchen of the couple’s home in tjie flat building at 151 Larrabee street. Yankee’s clothing had caught fire while he was melting tar, which boiled over.