The San Francisco call., 1898-08-24
YOUNG MOTHERS
 SELF-SACR|F|CE Perishes While Saving
 Her Children. REScUES THREE LITTLE ONES BABE NEARLY ROASTED ALIVE
 BY THE FLAMES. Heroism of Tuolumne Miners Wife, Who in Throes of Death
 Thinks Only of Her
 Offspring.
 
REScUES THREE LITTLE ONES
BABE NEARLY ROASTED ALIVE
 BY THE FLAMES.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 STOCKTON, Aug. 23.-The story of a woman's terrible death by fire and the probably fatal burning of her six months-o old babe was brought to this city to-day by the Rev F. A. Morrow, pastor of the Methodist Church at Pennington, where the funeral of the unfortunate wife and mother took place yesterday.
 The victim of the flames was Mrs. C.. E. Malkemaus, the young wife of man employed in the mines of Tuolum- ne County. With her three children, ranging in age from six months to five or six years, she resided in cottage three miles from the town of Jackson vile and about thirty miles east of Pennington. Last Saturday evening at about -sk Mrs. Malkemaus prepared to wash the children and set a lamp near a tub of water in the house. She stepped out uoors for minute and on returning found that the little ones had overturned the lamp, from which the blazing oil had spread over the floor. With a scream of terror the young mother seiz d one of the children and ran with it to the open air. Dashing back into the house she found that the flames had caught in the clothing of her baby and of the eldest child, a boy of five or six years. She tried to eX- tinguish the blaze with a blanket, but in spreading it over the children she famed the now fierce fire against her own clothing, which blaZed up in an in- stant, completely enveloping the poor woman.
 Though burning to death, she picked up the baby, and, hugging it to her breast, ran shrieking from the house. In the meantime 6 man who was at work In Ujoinitxv of nl hoc tened to the cottage, attracted by the screams. As he reached the woman her clothing dropped from her body. Her arms sank helpless to her side and her little child. with clothing all ablaze, fell to the ground The mothers last thought was for her offspring, and as she sank down she cried out:
 Don't help me, but get my little boy"
 The fire within the dwelling was making fast headway, but the rescuer darted into the house and took the boy out. The little fellow was burned on the left side of the face, the burns in- cluding his ear and nose.
 Mrs. Malkemaus was literally roast ed, the flesh being terribly burned over almost her entire body, but life lin- gered until morning, when she died. The babe was also frightfully burned, most of the body being roasted by the flames, and it Is thought the injuries will be fatal. The house was complete ly destroyed and had 1t not been for l the last words of the unfortunate mother as she fell to the ground, where she lay unconscious, the little boy would have been burned to death In the dwelling Mrs. Malkemaus was only | 21 years of age.
 The remains were taken to Farming l ton. and a telegram was sent to Rev. Mr. Morrow, who was at Pacific Grove, asking him to return and hold the fu neral services yesterday. The funeral was one of the largest ever seen at that 1 place.