Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-24
A BALTIMORE HORROR.
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ginia lowered her younger sister with
a sheet, and throwing a mattress out Of
the window leaped to the yard below.
She landed in safety and beyond the
shock and a slight injury 10 her ankle,
escaped Unhurt.
BY this time the firemen had reach
ed the scene and in twinkling had
reared long ladders up to the windows,
both front and rear. Up these they
swarmed and in a few minutes the re-
naming inmates of the doomed house
were being carried out. On the stair
way leading from the second 10 the
third floors was found the body of Mr..
Armiger with that of his little grand
son, Richard Riley, clasped tightly in
his arms, showing that the old man
had made a gallant attempt to rescue
the boy at the cost of his own life. In
the front room on the third floor was
found the corpse of Mr.. Manuel. He
too had the body o. a child in his arms,
telling another story of
UNREQUITTED HEROISM.
In the rear room. on the third floor,
lying on the bed the firemen found the
dead body of Mr. Riley. BY his side
lay his wife. breathing family. She
was hurried into the open air in time
to save her life. and though she is
badly burned about the face and arms
and half crazed by her terrible loss. she
will recover. In another room were
the bodies of Mrs. Champlin and her
three-year-old son, while on the upper
floor the fremen found Ida Whit
ing. the colored servant, unconscious
from smoke. but not seriously hurt.
The Injured were taken to the homes
of neghboring friends, with the eXcep-
tion of the servants. who were convey
ed to the city hospital. The dead were
carried across the street to the resi-
dence of Dr.. X. B. Bachelor. where
every effort was made 10 resuscltate
them. without avail When ii was
found that nothing further could be
done for them, they were covered with
sheets and laid out on the floor OF the
physician's parlor to await the coming
of the undertaken.
The fire although a fierce one, was
confined to the Armiger residence
which was
COMPLETELY Quilted.
No estimate has yet been made OF the
loss hut il is thought the contents are
worth at least 100000 The house is
insured in the Germania Insurance
Company. III,
The news OF the disaster spread with
Wonderful rapidity all over the city
and in an hour a tremendous crowd
had gathered in front Of the house.
PRAYERS for the dead and for the aftiict-
cd we're lifted up In almost every
church in the city and expressions or
sincere sympathy and regret were ut
tered from every pulpit, and repeated
in the households of the many friends
and acuuaintances of the unfortunate
The scene in the parlors of DR.
Ratcbelor's residence, where the char
red and bruised bodies were carried,
was narrowing. Even the undertakers
and their assistants, used TO scenes OF
death
TURNED AWAY AT TIMES
half sickened. Mr.. Armiger was burn
ed to a crisp around the upper part Of
his body. The white hair around his
venerable head was matted with blood
and cinders. His face and forehead
we're badly burned
Mr.. Riley died from burns and sutfo-
cation. He was a rather stout and mus
cular man. The burns we're chiefly
about his face. neck and shoulders. His
face was terribly distorted and wore an
expression of awful agony. His left
leg and side were slightly burned and
there was a liyid fire-mark across his
chest.
DR.. Manuel was terribly burned, and
his horribly SCARED face and body was
twisted to one side as though he died
only after making a supreme effort for
life. Cleaning in startling contrast
with the burned and blackened fingers
of Mr.. ManueTs left hand glistened a
handsome diamond ring, shaped like a
serpent. with the glittering gem in the
centre of the head.
Strong men who were standing in
TURNED THEIR FACES AWAY
when two undertakers brought in the
body of little James Champlin, grand
son of Mr.. Armiger. A woman stand
ing near the parlor door, in the hall,
tainted. The child was blackened