The morning times., 1896-02-24
SEVENLIVESLOST
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tne OlDcr DFdNc fireman on tne Iduuer De-
meath. She was taken to the home OF
James West, No. 3 North avenue, where
she was tenderIy cared for and is still
in ignorance OF the awful fate of her hus-
band, children and grandchildren.
The crowd around the building had in
creased TO hundreds by the time the ladders
were up. People going TO church stopped to
SEE the poor people carried down the ladders
The smoke had increased In density and the
front of the house was hardly visible. Atone
of the third story windows appeared theface
of a man.
look OF agony, such as many OF the spec
| tators never expected to see was there He
| raised the window, and reaching out his
hands shouted to the multitude below. They
sent him bacl; an encouraging shout, and he
left the window.
When the fremen went into the room
after the flames had been eXtnguished, they
found the burned body of man. 1t was
Harold Manuel. and he had been suffoested
by smoke. In his arms was little Richard
,, Riley, dead.
in the hallway leading from the front bed,
! room, which space had been occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. RINGER. was found James r. Ar
niger In his arms was little Marian Riley.
Both were dead.
| 1t appeared that the grandfather had tried
| togo down stairs with the child and that the
! flames and smoke had overcome him before
/ he reached the top OF the landing. His body
was carried across the street
| Mr.. Riley was found dead in the second
floor back room. HIS face wasbia ckened and
his night clothes We're half burned off. He
| had evidently tried TO get To the stairway
which led TO the floor below.
AWFUL LEAP FOR LIFE.
| He was near the doorway which, In addi-
ton to the door was draped with portieres.
All the furniture in the room was scorched,
even the paper on the ceiling being cracked
| and blistered.
Those wha saw the awful leap for life of
Alice j. Williams. one of the cOIored servants,
! will not forget it 10 their dying days. About
| 200 bystanders, who noticed the outpouring
clouds of smoke, were on the opposite side OF
| the street.
Suddenly at the fourth-story window
appeared a frightened, shrieking woman.
She tore up the window with crash, and
| leaned out far over the pavement.
Don't jump. don't jump" shrieked hun
dred voices. She stepped back and wrung
her hands. She left the window and again
appeared. Then she leaned utagain and ap-
peared to be trying 10 caI something TO
those below.
Don't Jump yelled a man waving his
high silk hat at her.
Too late. The terrOrized woman drew
half back in the window, and with an
awful shrek, launched herself out in the
air.
Down, down she shot. Her body turned
over several times in that awful flight.
Crash" Her head struck the second stone
step, her body turned a complete somer-
sault, and her head struck a second time
on the last step. while her body rebOunded
to the pavement.
For a moment the spectators were trans
fixed with horror. Then a man rushed for
ward, followed by a score. The woman
was moaning pitifully, her hands clinched
and uncliDched in agony. She was carried
to the residence OF DIR. BatcheIor, and from
there in the Second district ambulance to
the City Hospital. She will die.
The other colored servant. Mary White
who was rescued, was nearly suffocated
but the doctors at the hospital say she
Will probably live.
WRITINGS NOBLE DEED.
Louis Whiting, the colored servant, did a
noble deed. With Officers Carlos and
Grove he got into the house. The flames
were pouring out of the pantry. and up the
stairway from the cellar. All the men
dropped on their knees. and with noses
close to the floor, worked their way TO the
stairs which led to the second floor.
Whiting pushed his way up the stairs
through the smoke and entered the front
bedroom.
He met Mrs. Armiger at the landing and
rushed into the bedroom. Mrs. Armiger was
in her nightdress. The smoke blinded the
man but he forced his way TO the pooi
woman, who was wringing her hands il
her agony.
Don't mind me- she shouted. ''Savt
Mr.. ArmiGer. l can get out of the window
By this time the smoke was so denS'
and the heat so great that the paper on th'
ceilings had begun to crack.
Whiting opened the window nearest Uniol
| Station aud Mrs. Armiger got out on tn
balcony. The crowd below sent her en-
couragiDg words, but she paid little heet
. to them.
Whiting, flanked on all sides by the fire
opened the window next to North avenu
, and got out on the balcony. The flame
by this time had licked up the hanging
in the room aud We're approaching tn
windows.
Hold on, madam" shouted Whiting
, 1.-The firemen will save YOU"
Mrs. Armiger was undecided and ap
i pearea about to jump. Reach your haE'
to me- shouted Whiting. and he chung Wit
| ono bapd ~ tho halcOnx- yotla he tried d
, get Mrs. Armiger to come over to his sid
where there was more room. Before sh
had an opportunity to move he ladde
was up and she was saved.
A NARROWING SCENE.
The scene in the parlors of DR.. X.
Bachelors residence, 1907 North Charlie
street, where the eharred and bruises
: bodies were carried, was narrowing. Eve
the undertakers and their assistants, use
; to scenes of death turned away at time
half sickened. Mr.. Armiger was burne
to char around the upper part OF hi
body.
The white hair around his venerable hea
was matted and clotted with blood an
} cinders. His face and forehead was S
badly burned that the ends of his hair weT
!. clotted in the flesh. His face, althoug
: terribly blackened, was easily recognizab
and old friends turned away sick at hear
after gazing at him.
!. Mr.. Riley died from burns and suffice;
ton. He was rather stout and muscula
n man. The burns were chiefly about h
n face. neck and shoulders.
q Mr.. Manuel was also terribly burned an
his horribly SCARED face and body Wa
twisted to one. side as though he had die
/ only after making a supreme effort for lif
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