The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-03-31
MRS. SIMMONS DEAD.
A Victim of the Windsor Hotel
Disaster.

terlng from mortal injuries SuS-
tained in the Windsor Hotel FIRE,
in New York, on March 18th,
Mrs. Charles Il. Simmons, widow
of the late Captain Simmons and
daughter of the late Ezra Houck,
of this city, departed this life at
Bellevue Hospital, on Saturday
afternoon last, at five O'Clock.
The news was received here,
where the deceased was so we'll
known, with wide spread regret,
and heartfelt sympathy is ex-
tended to her Borrowing relatives.
The details of the disaster in
which Mrs. Simmons received her
injuries has been told of in these
columns and was one of the most
heartrending fatalities of this
generation. Over twenty five
persons lost their lives and many
more were more or less injured.
Mrs. Simmons jumped from her
room on the fifth floor to a bal
cOny below, and although prompt.
ly rescued from her perilous posi-
ton by the heroic tiremen, she
was frightfully burnt and injured.
Loving hands nurSed her in the
hospital and the best surgical and
medical science was employed but
to no avail. The death angel
hove,ed over the sufferers couch
and called the weary one Home to
rest.
The deceased was Matilda
Houck, and a native of Fred
erick. Her education was OBJ -.
tanned at the Female Seminary,
and her youth up to the time of
| her marriage, was spent here.
With her husband, who was in the
United States naval service and
attached to a foreign consulate,
she travelled extensively in dis
tant lands, and since his death in
1896, has passed much of her time
in New York.
She was an active and devoted
member of the Reformed Church,
and i'll her young days was a
teacher in the infants Sunday
School, where she was reyered
and beloved by her pupils. She
was one Of the managers of the
Home for the Aged. Mrs. Sim
mons is survived by five sisters
and host of admiring and Sor-
row stricken friends and acquain-
tainceS.
The funeral services were held
on Monday afternoon from he de
ceaSed's home on North Market
street. Rev. DIR. ESchbach Off
ciated. The pail bearers were
MeSSrs. Henry Williams, Arthur
Potts, Ira TYLER, NJ. f. Doll,
Noah Cramer and l.. S. Clingan
TRIBUTE TO MRS. SIMMONS.
The members Of the Board OF
Managers of the Home for the
Aged, upon learning Of the deatl
of their beloved comrade, has
tened to draft a tribute to hel
memory, through Miss Florence
Trail, corresponding secretary.
Every one who knew the deceased
will heartily concur with the fol
lowing tender expressions of the
rega' d and esteem Of those init.
mately associated with her in a
noble charity and corporal good
work
'The Board of Managers of the
Home for the Aged, learning Will
the deepest SORROW of the death oil
Mrs. Charles Il. Simmons, met al
the Home on Monday morning,
March 27th, to give expression tC
its sense Of loss Mrs. Simmons
had been a Manager of the Board
for two years and also a member
of the committee on religious ser
vices and the committee on the
house, garden and repairs. But
no mere statistics could give any
idea of the lively interest, the en-
thuSiaStic sympathy she mani
tested in every detail of the wei
fare of the institution. Genial
loving and beloved by everyone
with her wide knowledge of the
world, and with all the grace and
polish which is acquired only
through and by such knowledge
i'll giving her time, thought and
care to this work, she gave what
no one else could give-a part OF
her own gracious, winning per
sOnalty. The Board felt her com,
panionship to be a rare privilege
and recognized in her a noble
Christian character, a model OF
that courtesy which can spring
from nothing but heart Divinely
touched.
DESTROYS of showing every mark
of love and sorrow in connection
with this irreparable loss, the
Managers of the Home have ex
pressed their deepest sympathy tC
the family of Mrs. Simmons,