Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-02-27
ARE KILLED
,vrPuEATED FURNACE FLUE Is
THE CAUSE.
in the Residence OF Prom
Il, Jeweier I'm baltimore suf-
n..ates six Members of the Fam
- Guest-A Servant Fatal
,.rred-Fivc Others More or
.xs Injured.

,,n,ore Feb. -. - Seven people
nsnbvxiated. II fatally hurt by
Ining from "A window, ana hVe oth-
pare or less injured by a fire in the
NV of James X. Armiger, a
uIncnt ieweler at 1896 Charles
I'm this morning.
f. dead are james Il. Armiger,
( William b. Riley, his son-in-
%. Richard Riley, A: Marian
So; Mrs. Marian Champlin.
litter of Armiger. 80: James
'mpIin, 3; Horace b. Manuel "A
Es,aIIv Injured - Alice Williams,
va servant, skull fractured and
Ear serious injuries.
fniured-Mrs. William Riley, burned
~ face and suffering from inhala-
4, ~ smoke: will recover. Mrs. j.
nicer. aged 30, slight burns and suf-
w. from shock and exposure. Miss
nor Armigcr. II, slightly burned.
f. Virginia Armiger, -. ankle
|.btly spraircd in jumping. Mamie
Fhiting. colored servant, slightly
Irned and suffering from inhalation
1 smoke; will recover.
krho house in which the holocaust
a,nred is one of a row OF granite
E.nt residences belonging to the \. :.
Nm estate on Charles street. just
XIII of Lafayette avenue. 1t is four
|ories high and AT the time OF the
II was filed with costly furniture
Ia much rare b~ric-a-brac. plate and
Iioue iewelry. of which Mr.. Armiger
r. an enthusiastic collector. In the
Snse were lust thirteen persons. OF
Ipse ten were members of the Armlg-
1 household. two were servants and
b. other. Mr.. Manuel. was a guest
tho has been visiting the Armiger
Emily for the past two or three days.
was his purpose to have returned to
Is home in New York last night, but
Er Armiger persuaded him to re-
rain until today. All of these people
.erp in their bed rooms on the upper
|oors. some of them partially dressed.
Ehen at SD this morning fire was
discovered issuing from a partition in
be cellar. II had ignitcd from an
,yer.heated furnace flue. Mrs. ArmiSer
HAS rescued with difficulty.
Leaped to Her Death.
The other inmates in the front rooms
lrowded to the windows making the
host piteous appeals for help. The
below shouted to them not to
lump. but Alice Williams disregarded
heir warnings, and with an appealing
sprong from the fourth story
window and struck the stone steps
full upon her forehead, fracturing her
skull and sustaining other injuries
from which she will die.
By this time the riremen had reached
HE scene and in a twinkling had
long ladders up to the windows
lt both front and rear. Up these they
swarned, and in a few minutes the
'emairing inmates Of the doomed
house were carried out. On the stair,
way leading from the second 10 the
bird floor IA fond the body of Mr.,
ArIliger. with that OF his little grand,
sou. Richard Riley, clasped tightly in
mis- arms. showing that the old man
mad made a gallant attempt to rescue
The boy at the cost of his own life,
In the front on the third floor
was found the corpse of Mr.. Manuel
lie, too. had the body OF a child in
ms arms. In the rear room on the
ihitd door. lying on the bed, the fire,
men found the dead body of Mr.. Riley
y his side lay his wife. breathing
aintiy. She was hurried into the
,peh air In time TO save her life, and
longh she is badly burned about the
ace and arms and ~half-crazed by hcl
erfIele loss, she will recover. In an,
ouler room were the bodies of Mrs
,ah pun and her three-year-old son
VINE upon the upper floor the iremer
ouiai Mamie Whiting, the colored
mr'alll, unconscious from smoke. but
lt seriously hurt.