St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-04

she pore up bravery through ner SUI
ferings, which were most agonizing,
and it was her stoicism which led
all to believe that she would recover.
Mrs. Heath was married to Roscoe
B. Heath at the old Erdenheim
farm of Commodore KittSon in
1888, and she leaves two chill
dren, one aged two years and the
other four weeks. She was thirty
tire years of age. Under the will
of the late Commodore K1ttson, Mrs.
Heath's share of the estate rests
entirely with the children.
The story Of the terrible accident,
as taken from the Baltimore Sun
of March rs, is as follows:
BY the accidental overturning of
lamp in the residence of Roscoe B.
Heath, 20 West Mount Royal avenue,
early Sunday morning, the house was
set on fire, Mr.. Heath seriously in
jured and Mrs. Heath so severely
burned that she may die. Mrs. and
Mrs. Heath are now at the Maryland
University hospital. Their children
Reeves, aged three years, and Eliza
beth, five weeks old, and three servants
escaped without hurt. except for the
SLIGHT BURNING
of one of the fingers on the baby's left
hand.
The house is the second from the cor
ner of Mount Royal avenue and Mary
land avenue, is opposite the Cyciorama
building, and is one of the row of buff
brick dwellings. 1t was in the hall
| way that the lamp was overturned. Mr.
Heath, who had been out late, found
the lamp buring when he returned. 1t
was a tall piano lamp, the light of
which is eXtinguished by means of a
lever just below the burner Mr..
Heath said that the lever was hard to
work, and in trying to eXtinguish the
lamp he overturned it. An explosion
followed, and the burning oil flew in
every direction, setting fire to the par
lor and hallway.
Mr. Heath began to shout to his wife
at the top of his voice that the house
was on fire and to save herself and
children and the servants He tried
to run up stairs to her, but the flames
were in possession of the hallway and
drove him back, after his face and
went around to the back part of the
house to see if he could not get to
them in that way. He could not, and
in a short time he was sent first to the
Office of DR.. J. Edwin Michael and then
| to the Maryland University hospital.
Mrs. Heath was in the second-story
front room asleep with her baby when
the fire occurred. She was aroused by
h. L,
made by the fire. The room soon be-
| came
FILLED WITH SMOKE.
She called to her husband to let him
| know she was awake, wrapped I'D her
baby and started to go to the third
story back room in which the nurse.
Cecilia Kelly, slept with the three
year-old boy. The stairway was on
fire at the time, but she got the nurse
up and told her to get Reeves and get
out of the window upon the roof of the
bodybuilding. But, as the nurse was
very much excited, Mrs. Heath, who
had gone to the room herself, got her
son and took him to the window and
handed him out and then got out her.
self. She fell down three times with
the boy before she reached the win.
dow, but she held on and pressed
heroically forward. She was overcome
after she got on the roof, but did moi
lose control of herself.
A few minutes later District Fire
Chief William c. McAfee, who hat
gone up into the house of H. C. Davis
which adjoins the Heath residence or
the north, jumped from the roof of Mr.
Davis house to that on which Mrs
Heath was lying and took her, the
children and the nurse down to the
ground by means of ladder.
Mrs. Heath, the children and the
nurse were carried into the home o.
George E. E. Timanus, 1911 Marylanc
avenue, which is just around the cor.
ner from the Heath residence.
Three physicians were soon ATTENDING
to their injuries.
Il have never in my life seen
SUCH HEROISM
as Mrs. Heath displayed" said Mrs