The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 11
Acting Foreman George W. Kettler of Engine Company No. 8 died this morning at Providence Hospital, about 2:30 o’clock, making the fifth member of the department whose death resulted from Monday night’s conflagration.
“He was a number one fireman, and was as brave as a lion,” is what was said of him in Chief Parris’ office this morning.
Kettler was one of the four men caught in the first fall and the last taken out. During the four hours he spent beneath the ruins he suffered untold agony, but even through this intense suffering he uttered not a single complaint, but probably uttered a number of prayers to be spared from a living death, as it were.
In the death of this young fireman, for although he was in charge of the company, he was only twenty-four years old, the department loses the services of one of its best men, and the people of Capitol Hill, especially those in the neighborhood of the engine house on North Carolina avenue, feel that a member of their own families has been taken away.
The Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 5
DIED.
KETTLER—Suddenly, May 20, George W. Kettler, son of William and Rose Kettler, beloved husband of Mamie A., nee Curry, aged twenty-three years ten months. Funeral from his late residence, 135 D street southeast, and services at Trinity M.E. Church, Fourth street, between E and G streets, southeast, Thursday at 3 p.m.
Extract fromThe Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 2.
George W. Kettler, assistant foreman of No. 8, who died early this morning, yesterday said both to his father, William Kettler, and to his father-in-law, Morris Curry, that they were undoubtedly directed to go into the building as they did.
Daniel Curry, a brother-in-law of Kettler, was at his side a moment before the walls fell...
Acting Foreman George W. Kettler of Engine Company No. 8 died this morning at Providence Hospital, about 2:30 o’clock, making the fifth member of the department whose death resulted from Monday night’s conflagration.
“He was a number one fireman, and was as brave as a lion,” is what was said of him in Chief Parris’ office this morning.
Kettler was one of the four men caught in the first fall and the last taken out. During the four hours he spent beneath the ruins he suffered untold agony, but even through this intense suffering he uttered not a single complaint, but probably uttered a number of prayers to be spared from a living death, as it were.
In the death of this young fireman, for although he was in charge of the company, he was only twenty-four years old, the department loses the services of one of its best men, and the people of Capitol Hill, especially those in the neighborhood of the engine house on North Carolina avenue, feel that a member of their own families has been taken away.
The Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 5
DIED.
KETTLER—Suddenly, May 20, George W. Kettler, son of William and Rose Kettler, beloved husband of Mamie A., nee Curry, aged twenty-three years ten months. Funeral from his late residence, 135 D street southeast, and services at Trinity M.E. Church, Fourth street, between E and G streets, southeast, Thursday at 3 p.m.
Extract fromThe Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 2.
George W. Kettler, assistant foreman of No. 8, who died early this morning, yesterday said both to his father, William Kettler, and to his father-in-law, Morris Curry, that they were undoubtedly directed to go into the building as they did.
Daniel Curry, a brother-in-law of Kettler, was at his side a moment before the walls fell...
The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 11
Acting Foreman George W. Kettler of Engine Company No. 8 died this morning at Providence Hospital, about 2:30 o’clock, making the fifth member of the department whose death resulted from Monday night’s conflagration.
“He was a number one fireman, and was as brave as a lion,” is what was said of him in Chief Parris’ office this morning.
Kettler was one of the four men caught in the first fall and the last taken out. During the four hours he spent beneath the ruins he suffered untold agony, but even through this intense suffering he uttered not a single complaint, but probably uttered a number of prayers to be spared from a living death, as it were.
In the death of this young fireman, for although he was in charge of the company, he was only twenty-four years old, the department loses the services of one of its best men, and the people of Capitol Hill, especially those in the neighborhood of the engine house on North Carolina avenue, feel that a member of their own families has been taken away.
The Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 5
DIED.
KETTLER—Suddenly, May 20, George W. Kettler, son of William and Rose Kettler, beloved husband of Mamie A., nee Curry, aged twenty-three years ten months. Funeral from his late residence, 135 D street southeast, and services at Trinity M.E. Church, Fourth street, between E and G streets, southeast, Thursday at 3 p.m.
Extract fromThe Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 2.
George W. Kettler, assistant foreman of No. 8, who died early this morning, yesterday said both to his father, William Kettler, and to his father-in-law, Morris Curry, that they were undoubtedly directed to go into the building as they did.
Daniel Curry, a brother-in-law of Kettler, was at his side a moment before the walls fell...
Acting Foreman George W. Kettler of Engine Company No. 8 died this morning at Providence Hospital, about 2:30 o’clock, making the fifth member of the department whose death resulted from Monday night’s conflagration.
“He was a number one fireman, and was as brave as a lion,” is what was said of him in Chief Parris’ office this morning.
Kettler was one of the four men caught in the first fall and the last taken out. During the four hours he spent beneath the ruins he suffered untold agony, but even through this intense suffering he uttered not a single complaint, but probably uttered a number of prayers to be spared from a living death, as it were.
In the death of this young fireman, for although he was in charge of the company, he was only twenty-four years old, the department loses the services of one of its best men, and the people of Capitol Hill, especially those in the neighborhood of the engine house on North Carolina avenue, feel that a member of their own families has been taken away.
The Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 5
DIED.
KETTLER—Suddenly, May 20, George W. Kettler, son of William and Rose Kettler, beloved husband of Mamie A., nee Curry, aged twenty-three years ten months. Funeral from his late residence, 135 D street southeast, and services at Trinity M.E. Church, Fourth street, between E and G streets, southeast, Thursday at 3 p.m.
Extract fromThe Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) May 20, 1896 page 2.
George W. Kettler, assistant foreman of No. 8, who died early this morning, yesterday said both to his father, William Kettler, and to his father-in-law, Morris Curry, that they were undoubtedly directed to go into the building as they did.
Daniel Curry, a brother-in-law of Kettler, was at his side a moment before the walls fell...
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