The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-02-25
NET DEATH BY A FIRE.
Six Members of One Family
Dead at Baltimore.
rHEY DIED PROM AFFIRMATION.

Of whom wni DE.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 2a-scvsn people
were a.phyxiated. one fatally hurt BY
jam iug from window and Eve others
more or less injured by ire in the resi-.
denco Of James r. ATmiser, a promi.
nent jeweler at 1896 Charles street.
yesterday morning.
The dead are.
James II. Armiger. aged IS.
William B. Riley. his sonin-law.
aged 80
Richard Riley. son Of W. b. Riley.
aged
Marian Riley. daughter Of W. b.
Riley, aged 2is.
Mrs Marian Champlin, daught'r OF
james r. Armiger, asad 80.
James Champlin. her son. aged 3.
Horace B. Manuel, aged SO. OF New
York City, guest
List OF the injured;
Alice Williams. colored servant, skull
fractured aud o.her serious injuries;
will die.
Mrs William b. Riley. burned about
face and arms aud suffering from IN.
halation o. smoke; will recover
Mrs. James Il. Armgor. aged 90.
slight burns aud suffering from shock
and exposure.
Miss Eleanor Armiger, aged a.
slightly burned.
Miss Virginia Armiger, aged IS. ankle
slightly sprained in jumping
The house In which the holocaust oc.
CURED Is one Of row Of granite front
residences belonging to the A. 8 Abol
estate ON Charles street, just north Of
la Fayette avenue. Il l. four stories
high aud mu'h rare bric.a brao plate
ami unique jewelry Of which Mr. Ar.
niger was enthusiastic collector, was
lost
In the house were just 10 persons.
OF these 20 were members OF the Armi.
ger household. two were servants aud
the other. Mr.. Manuel. was guesn
who has been visiting the Armiger fam.
lily for the past two or three days. IL
was his purpose % have returned Co his
home In New YurS saturday night. bnt
Mr.. Arm.gcr pfeyAi.'i % hun 70 re.
mann until tais u dining All Of these
/ pcop.e were IN ,a bedrooms on
the upper floors. r" Of them being
| partially dressed " lci at 7:l5 o'clock
yesterday morning las vas discovered
issuing from pcuu't In a cellar. IL
hal irnitsd from u % heuei furnace
flue aud was first "l y Louis Wait.
ing, she colorei m 81 vino was at the
tims cleaning the siit .ieps.
Whiting ran 60 ,ns iacent corner
and gave tho alarm GA iliceman aud
hurr o bl's to ia hose. entered the
front door. closed ID sad him aud as
cento 70 tho scent t)or where Mr..
aud Mrs. Arm ~. al tleir bedroom.
The house wa. b. !, TINE filed with
demo, sud.n- sm1 aud when the
negro and Mrs. Ara a.; attempted TO
descend they sound g impossible. Whit.
ing aided Mrs. An g'r 20 the front
window and helpo4 lrs 20 reach q small
balcony In 'front.', o. which he placed
her AID went TO the q q u Mr. Arm ger.
lie found the latter d Il gone and came
back 10 Mrs. Arm ger who. clad in
nothing but her nightc.othei, was sh.v.
eriug on the narrow balcony and shrek.
ing In agonized tones for help. She
was rescued in miraculous manner by
Deputy Firechief McAfee.
The inmates Of the other front rooms
were crowdlng to the windows making
most pitiful appeals for help. The PEG.
pie shouie TO them no, TO jump. but
Alice Williams disregarded their warn.
ings and with an appalling shrek
sprang from the fourth strory window
and struck the stone steps full upon
her forehead. fraciuring her skull and
sustaining other injuries, from which
she viii Die.
An attempt was made TO succor the
other unfortunates by the doorway on
Charles street, but when the policemen
burst Il In they wore met by such a vol.
ume Of smoSo aud flame that they were
driven ba,k.
la the rear room on the second story
was Eleanor aud Virginia, the unmAr.
ried daughters Of Mrs Armiger. They
were partially dressed, but 80 rapid was
the 'pscad o. the Iimes that they had
no time 60 escape by the stairway. In
their x'romity they leanel far out Of
the rear window and cried for help. A
neighblr came 60 their all and under
his c1l.heaied directions Miss Virginia
lowered her Younger sister with a sheet
and throwing a mattress ont OF the
window loap,i % the yarl below She
al GIFTED In safety aud beyond the shock
ami sighs injury to her ankle, Is.
capod unhurt
Bv this time thA hremeu had reached