Elva Mabel Ingraham attempted to save Carrie V. Johnson from burning, Brooks, Maine, January 9, 1925. Mrs. Johnson, 59, who could not walk without assistance, was asleep on the second floor of a frame building when the building caught fire at night. Miss Ingraham, 24 telephone operator, who was in her night clothes, ran to an adjoining apartment and warned the occupants of the fire. She then returned to Mrs. Johnson and helped her across two rooms to a door opening into the adjoining apartment but found the door was locked. Miss Ingraham then helped Mrs. Johnson through the rooms, which were by that time filled with smoke, to a door leading to a hall. When she opened that door, flames burst into the room. She quickly closed the door and led Mrs. Johnson away from it. Mrs. Johnson then sank to the floor, and Miss Ingraham was unable to rouse her and thought she was dead. Miss Ingraham was then breathing with great difficulty on account of the smoke, and she raised a window. As she leaned out to get air, dense smoke rolled from the window. Men called to her to jump. A moment later she plunged from the window. She suffered slight injury, but her nerves were affected for weeks. Mrs. Johnson was burned to death. 25006-2177
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