The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-17
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A BRAVE AND HEROIC MAN
HOW A CHICAGO MAN SAVED HIS
FAMILY AND SERVANTS.
He Carries Them Out OF His Burning
Residence Through Sheets of Flame
and Smoke Under the Greatest DIM
culties.

CHICAGO, H., Jan. l6.-The burning Of
the fine residence, No. 1850 Michigan
avenue, the heart Of a fashionable district,
at o'clock this morning, was accompanied
by display Of great heroism and success
sion Of thrilling incidents. Mr.. Joseph
Horner, a well known merchant, lives at
this number with his family, consisting OF
his wife, child and two female servants,
and il was to his courage and presence Of
mind that they all owe their escape from a
horrible death. Shortly after midnight
the woodwork above the overhcated fur
mace caught fire. II was quarter OF
o'clock. Mrs. Horner awoke with n sti-
fling sensation. She grasped her husband,
and he bounded out Of bed. cried TO his
wife to put on some wearing apparel, and,
snaiching up the little girl, rushed into the
hallway. The flames and smoke were
sweeping up the stairway, and for a mo-
ment he was discouraged lie looked at
his wife, who stood beside him only in her
night dress, for she had made no move TO
put anything on, and then at the little girl
in his arms, similarly clad. With the
thermometer l5' below zero, exposure
meant almost certain death. Approaching
this, and taking his chances, he CROPPED
his way 10 front room, seized a couple OF
wraps, wrapped one about the child, threw
the other over his wiie's shoulders. By
this time the stairway leading down was
on fire, and escape seemed cut
off. Selling his wife around the
waist with one arm and the child with the
other, Mr.. Homer half staggered. half fell
down stains. lilo pushed through the
smoke, and with last effort threw open
the front door and rushed into the street.
lie then started back into his house TO
save the two servants, asleep on the top
floor. A thick and steady volume OF
smoke now poured out Of the open front
door, and fighting through this, Mr.. Hor-
ner encountered a sheet OF flame nj the
foot Of the stains. II scorchcd his face and
singcd his hair, but undauntcd he flew up
the stairway To the top floor and burst into
the servants room. Both were asleep and
nearly suilocatcd when he reached them.
Throwing n few wraps about each Of them,
he siozed an arm OF each and started down
stairs. The flames had eaten their way
through the stains by this time, and To
safely pass them seemed impossible. but
the courageous nan somehow got through.
The stairs, NJ he stepped upon them,
seemed TO drop from under him and when
he reached the street, the night dpEscs Of
the servants were ON fire. IL was then
that Mr.. Honer found time "a cry fire. "
Windows In all the fine residences along
the boulevard were hastily thrown open,
and scared faces looked out upon the
flames issuing from the Homer residence.
The loss was about $1,000