Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-08-06 | Page 6 | Loses Life for Another

LOSES LIFE ! FOR ANOTHER Chicago Men Show Splen-i Splen-i did Examples of Brav- 1 I ery and Unselfishness. '- . j ';' ': CHICAGO, Aug. . Henry Koch, a . house painter, lost his lite to save the life of Policeman Daniel O'Brien, who also risked his life to save imperiled . men.. ; - ; ' - -After seven laborers had been over-, over-, '" come by gas in an excavation at Elght-' Elght-' renth street and Armour avenue1, Po-- Po-- llceman O'Brien went Into the pit and fastened ropes about their bodies. All ' . were lifted to the surface, but when the last roan had been taken out the peUce-: peUce-: man lay unconscious in the hole, v It was then that Koch went in and .'. attached a rope to the policeman's , body. O'Brien was rescued, but Koch fell unconscious, and though Patrick King and Henry Thompson, firemen, . bravely went into the hole and brought ; " up his body, he was beyond resusclta-s resusclta-s tion. - - . The condition of Policeman O'Brien is serious and he may die. . i'