Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-31 | Page 1 | Loses Own Life to Save Woman

LOSES OWN LIFE TO SAVE WOMAN New York. Jan. 31. Ferdinand Kuehn, chief" wireless operator on board the liner Monroe who took off his own life preserver and strapped it around a woman just as the steamer Monroe started to sinic early yesterday, yester-day, lived with his parents in the Bronx, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Kuehn and his 12 year old sister, Victoria. The father is a furrier. All day yesterday yes-terday friends of the family called to ask for news and offer encouragement to the grief-stricken parents. From Mrs. Kuehn, it was learned that Ferdinana was only twenty years old. He became Interested in electro-mechanics electro-mechanics when a pupil in high school In the Bronx. As a school boy he had learned the principles of wireless telegraphy tele-graphy sufficiently to rig up an apparatus appar-atus of his own at his home. This was his second trip on the Monroe.