Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1903 — Two Burned at Cedar Lake. [ARTICLE]

Two Burned at Cedar Lake.

Early Tuesday morning the Hetzler summer resort hotel at at Oedar Lake was burned, and in the fire two guests W. W. Potter and Mrs. Mary Guernsey lost their lives. They were from Aniswortb, Ind., and oame to the place the night before, with the intention, bb stated, of getting married. Potter was a bachelor and Mrs. Guernsey a widow with five children, both were about 45 years old. It is also said that Potter had escaped from the burning building but went back in to try to save Mrs. Guernsey, and that the stairs fell in With them as he was carrying her down.