Samuel Nasser, 26, weaver, saved Edward S. Whelan, 4, from burning, Elmira, New York, April 12,1912. Edward was sleeping in a second?story room when it caught fire from an exploding lamp and became filled with dense smoke. His mother opened the door and then ran from the house. The halls quickly filled with smoke. After another man had been driven back by the smoke, Nasser entered the house and started up the stairs, but the smoke was so dense that he returned to the outer door. When he saw the mother crying for her child, he turned and groped his way up the stairs and through the halls to the room in which he understood Edward to be. He saw a light, as of fire, in the room, but he crouched and went forward. He reached a bed but found no one on it. As he was leaving the room, he heard a cough and again went to the bed and felt over it. He then crawled over the bed and found Edward in another bed beside the first. Nasser picked the child up and groped his way down the stairs and out of doors. Both were burned somewhat, and Nasser was disabled 32 days. 8368-730
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