P. Clinton Martin, 29, clergyman, died as the result of an attempt to save Bessie White, 23, from burning, Vinegar Bend, Alabama, September 2, 1916. Miss White was in a second-story room of a frame hotel building that caught fire at night. Martin, who was a stranger to Miss White but had helped her take her baggage to the hotel, occupied a room at the other end of a hall from her room. When Martin was awakened, he partly descended a stairway that led from the hall outside his room but returned to the second story and went toward Miss White’s room. The hall was dark and full of smoke, and Martin did not find Miss White. He was next seen jumping from a porch near her room. He died 16 hours later of burns he had received in the building. Miss White got to the porch herself, and she fainted and fell from it just after Martin had jumped, breaking her collarbone. 17157-1336
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