The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-23
BRAVE GIRLS FATE.
Miss Amanda Hildebrandt Ter
ribly Burned.
SAD ACCIDENT IN A SCHOOL.
Rainier School Exercises Followed by
the Overturning of q Lamp-The
Victims Heroism.

Miss Amanda ]. Hilderbrandt. one Of
the teachers in the Rainier school, was lit
orally burned from head to foot last even
ing about 9:l5 o'clock in the school build
ing, while trying to extinguish the flames
from an overturned piano lamp. She
now lies at her home, No. 423 Taylor street,
in critical condition.
Miss Hildebrandt was the teacher of the
fifth grade pupils in the Rainier school
and last evening the closing exercises were
held. Everything passed off pleasantly
and the crowd of pupils and proud fathers
and mothers which filled the hall had only
praise for the teacher who had
made such good progress with her
classes During the evening Miss
Hildebrandt was troubled ABOUT
tall lamp that stood in close proximity to
the piano and in such position that she
feared people in passing to and from the
room were in danger of knocking it over.
Just as the exercises were finished and the
mass of people arose and moved toward
the door, Miss Hildebrandt went over near
the lamp. She had not been there long W hen
some person brushed up against it and
over the rather top-heavy affair went.
With thoughts only of those whose lives
grabbed the standard in which the lamp
proper is set The burner, together with
the oil cup, which is commonly called the
top of the lamp, fell out, and the flames
Jared up wildly.
Quick as flash the heroic girl grabbed
the skirt of her light evening dress and
did her utmost to extinguish the flames.
In moment her dress was on fire. and
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alize what had occurred the flames had en-
veloped the fair girl from head to
foot With rare presence of mind she put
her handkerchief over her mouth and ran
for the door The sight of human being
covered with tiny flames that each moment
grew larger caused a thrill of horror to
sweep through the throng. Women
shrieked, children cried and it is said sew
eral persons tainted. As the form of the
burning girl ran out of the doorway she
passed her brother. George. who saw but
only knew that some one was being
burned.
Miss Hildebrandt ran down the long
fight of stairs TO the main floor, passed
through the hall to the front door and as
the flames which now threw out their
tongues more dangerously and encircied
her form more closely shot up into the air
she fell at the top of the steps and rolled
to the bottom.
Help was now at hand in the persons of
Prof Walter ID. Gerard aud David Young,
OF Lake Union. The professor picked up
the PROSTATE and burning girl from the
steps and in few moments she was
wrapped in the coats which the two rescu-
ers quickly stripped of. The flames,
however, were still eating at
her flesh, and not until George Hide
brandt and W. Linehan turned the
school hose on her was the fire put out.
Then. and not until then. did the brother
know that it was his sister he was trying
to save. The poor girl was then taken to
her home just across the street, and in
short time DIR. w. McNeal and DIR. II. d.
Kline were in attendance. Later the
family physician. DR.. Coe, arrived.
Upon examination it was found that to
all intents and purposes Miss Hide
brandt's clothes had been burned from her
body. From her head to her feet there
was not place as large as the
hand that the flames had not eaten
Her hair was singed, but FORUM
ately, owing to the handkerchief she
held over her mouth, part of her face es-
capped. After reaching home she expert
enced great pain, but towards midnight
she grew easier, and under anesthetics
was getting some rest. During the entire
horrible ordeal Miss Hildebrandt retained
self-consciousness and was able to tell Just
what happened.
Miss Hildebrandt's condition is serious.
but the physician hopes for the best. The
unfortunate teacher is great favorite
with he pupils and has many friends In
the city.
Mr.. Young, one of those who rescued
Miss Hildebrandt, was burned on the
leg according to report. Several peo-
pie had narrow escapes from the fire
apparatus which responded to an alarm.
IL was not needed, as George Hildebrandt
and w. Linehan put out the fire in the
school room without any damage result
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