Jay F. Hammond, 30, farmer, attempted to save W. Jarvis Gleason, 83, farmer, from burning, Harford, New York, June 26, 1911. Hammond was awakened at night to find a fire raging at the head of a stairway in an adjoining room. He grabbed his child and went through the room to the stairs, calling to Gleason to follow. Hammond stooped to avoid the flames at the stairs, but the child’s nightclothes were scorched as he passed. When he reached the first floor, he left the child and, wearing only an undershirt, ran up the stairs for Gleason, whom he found standing at the head of the stairway in a dazed condition. Gleason’s nightshirt had been entirely consumed, and the upper part of his body was in the flames. Hammond stepped into the flames toward Gleason, and his undershirt was burned off his body. He grasped Gleason and pulled him down one step, and then Gleason became helpless and sat on the stairs. The heat became so intense that Hammond, after making unsuccessful attempts to push Gleason down the stairs, left him and stumbled to the bottom. Hammond left the house, and a son of Gleason pulled his father down the steps, being burned while doing so. Gleason died within a few hours. Hammond was disabled nearly two months. 7135-815
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