[ "Saved By a Newfoundland Dog" / New York Times ]
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper which began publishing in 1851 and continues to this day. It has won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other newspaper, and has the 3rd-largest circulation in the United States.
The issue of January 18, 1890, carried the following brief news item under the headline "Saved By a Newfoundland Dog":
Pittsburg, Penn., Jan. 17. — A big Newfoundland dog saved six lives in Allegheny City about 1 o'clock this morning. The dog belonged to F. D. King, and was asleep in one of the kitches in the rear of the Boyle business block. King was awakened by the animal's barking. Repeatedly efforts to quite the brute failed, and looking out of the window, King discovered that the Boyle Building was in flames. He gave the alarm, and Henry Arnfeld, the janitor, heard it. Then the men started to arouse the families on the third and fourth floors. Thomas Graham and wife, Mrs. Ritchey and daughter, and Janitor Arnfeld's wife were gotten out of the already smoking rooms in the nick of time. They were hustled into the bitter cold night in their nightclothes just as the firemen rush up stairs with the hose. The dog had saved six lives and to-day was the hero of Boyle's block.