Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-02-29

ing to the windows making the most
piteous appeals for help.
The people below shouted to them not
to jump, but Alice Williams disregard
ed their warnings, and with appalling
shrieks, sprang from the fourth-story
window, struck the stone steps full
upon her forehead, fracturing her skull
and sustaining other injuries from
which she will die. An attempt was
made to succor the other unfortunates
| by means of q doorway on Charles
street, but when the policemen burst
it in they were met by such volumes of
smoke and flames that they were driven
| back.
In the rear room on the second floor
were Eleanor and Virginia, unmarried
| daughters of Armiger, They were par
| TALLY dressed, but so rapid was the
spread of the flames that they had no
time to escape by the stairway. In
their extremity they leaned far out
Of the rear window and cried for help
A neighbor came to their aid and under
his cool headed directions Virginia low
cred her younger sister with a sheet
and throwing a mattress out of the
window leaped to the yard below. She
alighted in safety and beyond the shock
and slight injury to her ankle, es-
capped unhurt.
In the rear room on the third floor,
lying on the bed, the fireman found the
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 the terrible loss, she will
recover. In another room were the bod
les Of Mrs. Chaplin and her 3-year-old
son. while upon the upper floor the fire
men found Ida Whiting, the Colored
servant, unconscious from smoke, but
not seriously hurt.
The injured wer" taken to the homes
Of neighbors, with the exception of the
servants, who were conveyed to the
city hosDital The dead were CARVED
across the street TO the residence of Dr.
X. Is. EatchclOr. where nVerV effort was
made to reSuscitate them, hut to no
and laid out on the floor of the phys
ician's parlor to await the coming of
the undertaken.
Mr.. Armiger was burned to a crisp
around the upper part of his body. The
white hair about his venerable head
was matted with blood and cinders
Mr.. Riley died from burns and suf-
location. The burns were chiefly about
his face, neck and shoulders. His face
was terribly distorted and wore an eX-
preston of awful agony. His left leg
and side were slightly burned, and
there was a liyid fire mark across his
chest.
Mr.. Manuel was terribly burned and
his horribly SCARED face and body was
twisted to one side, as though he had
died only after making a supreme eff
fort for life.
Cleaning in startling contrast with
the burned and blackened fingers of
ManueIs left hand, glistened a hand
some ring shaped like a snake, with a
gHttering gem in the center of the
head.
Strong men who were standing in the
parlor turned their heads away when
the undertakers brought in the body Of
little James Chaplin, grandson Of Mr.
Armiger. A woman standing near the
parlor door in the hall tainted. The
child was a blackened cnder Smoke
and fire had done their fearful work.
Even the throat and nostrils were burn
ed inside.
The two Riley children were killed
by the suffocating smoke. Their faces
were blackened from the bursting Of
blood vessels, and the crimson fluid
stained their blackened night gowns.
Mrs. Letitia Riley, who is SO cruelty
bereaved, is lying at the home of Dr..
Bachelor in a semi-stupor, seemingly
unconscious of her irreparable loss, and
suffering great physical agony. The
physician says, however. that her
wounds are more painful than serious,
| and that the only obstacle to her re-
! covery will be the awful Shock she has
/ To IN will IL,