Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-27
EEN R KILLED
IFRHEATED FURNACE FLuE Is
THE CAUSE.
~. Residence of n Prom
/, JeweIer in baltimore SUI
,ss six Members of the Fam,
- Guest-A servant Fatal
...m.d-Five Others More or
!. Injured.

aore Feb. %. - Seven people
ssnhyxiated, one fatally hurt by
from a window, and five 9th
- ar less injured by a fire in the
nce of James X. Armiger, a
Enent jeweler at 1906 Charles
this morning.
dead are James X. Armiger,
y. William Il. Riley, his son-in-
s%s'. Richard Riley, 4: Marian
'"o,.2: Mrs. Marian Champlin,
of Armiger, 80; James
Min. 3; Horace b. Manuel, a
INV Injured - Alice Williams.
i servant, skull fractured and
| serious injuries.
,red-Mrs. William Riley, burned
face and suffering from inhala-
In smoke: will recover. Mrs. j.
Ear aged 30. slight burns and suf-
/, from shock and exposure. Miss
por Armiger, II, slightly burned.
virginia Armiger. %, ankle
.,v strained I'm jumping. Mamie
;nc colored servant, slightly
Il and suffering from inhalation
poke: will recover.
4 house in which the holocaust
,red is one Of a row OF granite
residences belonging to the A. >.
estate on Charles street, just
I Of Lafayette avenue. 1t is four
Is high and ut the time of the
,ras filed with costly furniture
,nuch rare bric-a-brac. plate and
h iewelry. OF which Mr.. Armiger
lam enthusiastic collector. In the
4 were lust thirteen persons. OF
| ion were members of the Armig-
Dnsehold. two were servants and
kther, Mr.. Manuel, was a guest
has been visiting the Armiger
y for the past two or three days.
bs his purpose to have returned to
home in New York last night, but
Armiger persuaded him TO re-
mill to-day. All Of these people
in their bed rooms on the upper
some of them partially dressed,
at S:15 this morning fire was
byered issuing from a partition in
4 cellar. II had ignited from an
heated furnace fue. Mrs. Armiger
/ rescued with difficulty.
Leaped 10 Her Death.
p other inmates i'm the front rooms
Eded to the windows making the
piteous appeals for help. The
le below shouted 10 them not to
but Alice Williams disregarded
warnings, and with an appealing
! sprong from the fourth story
low and struck the stone steps
upon her forehead, fracturing her
and sustaining other injuries
which she will die.
this time the bremen had reached
scene and in a twinkling had
kd long LADDERS up TO the windows
pth front and rear. Up these they
fmed, and in a few minutes the
hiring inmates Of the doomed
e were carried out. On the stair
leading from the second TO the
floor was found the body of Mr..
iger, with that Of his little grand.
Richard Riley, clasped tightly in
arms. showing that the old man
made a gallant attempt 10 rescue
boy at the cost Of his own life.
DE front room on the third floor
found the corpse of Mr.. Manuel.
too. had the body of a child in
arms. In the rear room on the
noor. lying on the bed. the fire.
found the dead body of Mr.. Riley.
lls side lay his wife. breathing
w. She was hurried into the
ar In time to save her life, and
sl she Is badly burned about the
shu arms and haif-craZed by her
Oe loss, she will recover. In an
room were the bodies of Mrs.
ppm and her three-year-old son,
upon the upper floor the fremen
Mamie Whiting. the colored
anl' unconscious from smoke. but
Seriously hurt.