Fearful death of a Woodstocker - 'The Marinette and Peshtigo Eagle', Marinette, Wisconsin 10th says: On Wednesday afternoon a fire was discovered in some slab piles near the saw mill of L.W.& V.S. Company. The fire steamer was called out and Hon. Robert STEPHENSON, who was chief of the fire dept., being also resident superintendent of the company, went to work with a will in connection with the boys to subdue the fire, Manning the hose, he started in between two large fiery piles of slabs and was warned at thetime that he was going into a dangerous place. His energetic and impulsive nature would brook no restraint and he passed into the opening some 20 or 30 feet, when a sheet of flame struck him on the face and neck, burning him severely. He wheeled, placed his hands to his face and mouth and ran out, being caught by another sheet of flame before he made his escape. He was taken to a buggy and taken home at once and it was found that his face and neck were terribly burned. Dr. Jones of Marinette remained with him through the following night, during which time he gradually grew worse and early the following morn., surrounded by his grief stricken family and friends, breathed his last. In the mean time, Jennie STEPHENSON and Fred STEPHENSON, a daughter and son in school at Lake Forest, Ill. were telegraphed, and arrived home, but too late to see him alive. Hon. Robert Stephenson was born in the Province of New Brunswick May 4th, 1834 and was 48 years 1 month and 4 days old at the time of his death. He came with his parents to Aroostock Co., Maine in 1843. From there he went to Minnesota in 1854. He was married in 1856 to Hannah BENTHOUSE who with six children still survive him. He was buried with Masonic honors by the Menominee Lodge F.& A.M.