The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-24

BALTIMORE, Feb. 28.-Seven peo-
pie were asphyxiated, one fatally hurt
by jumping from q window, and five
| others more or less injured by a fire
in the residence of James P. Armiger,
prominent jeweller on Charles street
this morning.
DEAD.
James R. Armiger, aged 55.
William B. Riley, his son-in-law,
aged So.
Richard Riley, son of W. B. Riley,
aged 4.
Marian Riley, daughter of W. B.
Riley, aged 21s.
Mrs. Marian Chaplin, daughter of
James Arniger. aged 80.
James Chaplin, her son, aged 8.
Horace B. Manuel, aged 56, of New
York city, a guest.
FATALLY INJURED.
Alice Williams, colored, servant,
skull fractured and other serious in
juries.
INJURED.
Mrs. William B. Riley. burned about
face and arms; suffering from inhala-
ton of smoke; will recover.
Mrs. James r. Armiger. aged So
slight burns and suffering from shock
of exposure.
slightly burned.
Miss Virginia Armiger, aged %, ankle
slightly sprained in jumping.
Mamie Whiting, colored servant,
slightly burned and suffering from in
halation of smoke will recover.
THE SCENE.
The house in which the holocaust oc-
Cured is one of row of granite resi-
dences belonging to the A. S. Abel es-
tate on Charles street just north of
Lafayette avenue. 1t is four stories
in height and at the time of the fire
was filled with costly furniture and
much rare bric-a-brac and unique
jewelry of which Mr.. Armiger was an
enthusiastic collector. In the house
were thirteen persons. OF these, ten
were members of the Armiger house
hold, two were servants and the other,
Mr.. Manuel, was q guest who has been
visiting the Armiger family for the
purpose to have returned ITO his home
in New York last night, but Mr.. Armi-
ger prevailed upon him to remain until
Monday. All of these people were in
their bedrooms, on the upper floors,
some of them being partially dressed,
when at $50 o'clock this morning
FIRE WAS DISCOVERED
issuing from partition in the cellar.
1t had ignited from an over-heated
furnace f1ue and was first seen by
Louis Whiting, the colored man of all
work, who was at the time cleaning
the front steps. Whiting ran to the
adjacent corner and gave the alarm
to policeman, and hurried back to
the house, entered the front door
closed it behind him and ascended to
the second floor, where Mr. and Mrs
Armiger had their bedroom.
The house was by this time filled
with dense, sitting smoke and when
the negro and Mrs. Armiger attemDted
to descend they found it impossible.
Whiting aided Mrs. Armiger to the
front window and helped her to reach
a small balcony in front, upon which
he placed her and returned to the aid
OF Mr. Armiger. He found the latter
mad gone and came back to Mrs. Ar
niger, who clad in nothing but her
night clothes, was shivering ON the
narrow balcony and shrieking in
agonized tones for help. Half a dozen
men who were passing FASTENED to the
power house of the Charles street
cable car line, a block below. and nro-
cured short ladder When they re-
turned they found Deputy Fire Chief
McAfee,
A NOTED LIFE SAVER.
who quickly mounted the ladder. #
was not long enough, but by standing
on the uppermost round, he could
reach the frightened woman As he
to lift her from the balcony
her scanty clothing caught on an OBJ
struction, and she fell forward with
her whole weight upon the out
arms of the fireman. Just
then the ladder slipped and every one
below expected to see both the
rescuer and the woman he was trying
to save dashed to death on the pave
ment below. By a tremendous effort
however, McAfee steadied himself and
holding Mrs Armiger with one hand. |
grasped the balcony with the other. |
Hanging thus he slowly replaced the |
ladder with his feet and brought the |
now fainting woman down in safety |
and in the meantime the other in
mates Of the front rooms were crowd
ing to the windows making the most
piteous appeals for help. The people |
below shouted t. them not to iunp. |
but Alice Williams disregarded their !
and with
AN APPALLING SHREK.
sprang from the fourth story window
struck the stone steps full upon her |
forehead, fracturing her skull and sus-
tanning other injuries from which she |
will die. An attempt was made to |
5uccor the other unfortunates by |
means of the doorway on Charles |
street, but when a policeman burst it
n they were met by such volume of
smoke and flame that they were |
driven back.
In the rear room on the second floor
were Eleanor and Virginia, the unmar I
RED daughters of Mr. Arniger They ]