The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-21
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5.15 O'CLOCK.
JUST IN TIME.
Two Little Chill
dren Saved.
Fireman Morse Saved Them
From Suffocation.
Fire In the House at "a Lonsdale
Street This Afternoon.
Fire In the House at "a Lonsdale
Street This Afternoon.
The Premises Occupied by Alonzo L.
Stewart and His Family.

Two innocent little children would
have been suffocated to death this after
noon but Tor the brave action of MEM
ber of Hose No. 1, who went 10 the res
cue just in time.
there was a fire about O'Clock in the
house at "a LoDsdale street, for which
alarm 141 was pulled. The blaze was con-
fined principally to one little rear room
and closet OF the tenement on the sec
ond floor, occupied by Mr.. and Mrs
Alonzo Il. Stewart and their two child
ren-Alice. who will be four years old
next October, and Willie, who is about
two years younger. Mrs. Stewart left her
rooms about five minutes before the flre
was discovered TO visit her janitor's wife,
Mrs. Sharp, who lives overhead. Alice
and Willie were left playing in the
kitchen. The next time she saw her
loved ones, they were stretched out on q
bench in Norman n. Mason's apothecary
store, corner of North Main and Meet
ing streets, and DIR. George III. Kenyon
and Mr. Mason's assistants were working
over them in an effort TO save them from
death. At last accounts the efforts
seemed likely TO be successful, as the boy
had frightened up considerably, and the
girl could cry and object to take medi-
cine.
The fireman to whose bravery the
children and parents owe the lives OF the
little ones is Lewis w. Morse, hoseman.
He was among the first TO enter the
kitchen and saw the smoke and flames
In the little room, which Is scarcely
larger than a shoe box, which is reached
directly from the kitchen and is at the
rear part of the building, overlooking a
courtyard. The outside window was
opened and helped the fire spread. Lead
ing from this little room is small clothes
closet under the stairs, which led from
the tenement below TO that above.
This little bedroom was so dense
with smoke that Hoseman Morse could
hardly grope his way.
He felt for bed, having been told that
there were children somewhere in the
house, and found cradle. They were
not there, but he threw the cradle out of
room and walked further into it. He ran
against a bed, evidently small one,
that one OF the children occupied, and
found both the little things hugging each
other in unconsciousness.
1t was but moments work to pass
them out to willing hands, who con-
Quoted them to place of safety.
The mother was almost frenzied and
could scarcely talk intelligently about
the occurrence. She said she could not
account for the fire, as there were no
matches in the closet where the fire APP
parently originated. There was coal fire
in the kitchen stove, but the children
we're never known to play with fire. IL
was not impossible, however, for them
to have done so. Although the room,
closet and contents were pretty badly
scorched, there were no burns about the
children or their clothes. The father
owns yacht and at the time OF the fire
was at the Continental Steamboat Com
pany's wharf looking after the boat
The house is one of cluster of build
ings corner of North Main and Lonsdale
streets, formerly known as the Lonsdale
estate, but now said TO belong to the
estate of Moses jenkins. G. f. Pratt, of
64 North Main street, is the agent of the
porperty. The money loss is inconsider-
able.