The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-10

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fully reposes the SCARED form of
tiny infant. its scared little hands, once
so chubby and playful, crossed upon its
breast rests upon stand in the neatly
furnished parlor of the upper fat of 290S
Twenty-frst street, while in darkened
room in the rear the young father of the
dead and mutilated child wrIthes on bed
of agony, suffering eXcruciating pain
from injuries received in he
role but vain endeavor to save
his offspring from an awful death by
fire. But the physical torture that
wracks his frame is overshadowed and
almost forgotten in the mental agony pro-
duced by the shock OF the awful tragedy,
an agony that is shared in an equal de-
gree by the heartbroken young mother
who boheId her first born burned almost
to n crisp before her eyes and she help
less to save it from the awful fate i'm
pending although the poor creature, who
is hardly more than a child herself, he
roically seconded her husband in his eff
forts to extinguish the cruel flames that
brought gloom and misery 70 the erst-
while happy home, receiving at the
time slight burns. The deathlike stu
ness that pervs les the desOiated home,
broken only by the means of mingled pain
and iamentation from the sick chamber,
and the Smothered voices and footsteps
oil the klDl-NtdIItQ WdlCiltIS anu 4lt44 SIS,
have succeeded the gleeful prattle of the
child and the happy laughter OF the fond
Thomas Tiernev and his wife. Lizzie.
are the heart-stricken parents who were
made childless by the awful tragedy of
the fire enacted in the pretty little
Mission home on Monday night. Married
less than two years, their lives lightened
and the future made doubly bright by the
advent of their first baby boy just eleven
short months ago, the fond young couple
find themselves bereft of their little one
with appalling suddenness, and not even
the gentle ministratiOns Of sympathetic
relatives land friends can do aught to as
suage the grief that oVerwhelms them.
closing Of the Ingleside Coursing Park
one of the attaches Of the park, and since
then he has been employed in training
James O'Donnells greyhounds. AT 7:l5
yard feeding the dogs His wife placed
the baby in it's chair which was standing
near the middle of the kitchen, and start
ed down the stairs leading to the yard,
carrying some dog food.
She had completed half the journey
when a scream from the kitchen startled
both husband and wife, and as they
turned their eyes upward sheet of fame
lighted up the kitchen. Realizing in an
instant the danger that threatened their
child. they rushed to its rescue. Iferney
was the first to reach the blazing kitchen.
and the sight that met his gaze almost
froze his blood with horror. The baby's
chair was completely enVeloped in flames
and the little hands were beating feebly
at them as though in an effort to eX-
tinguish them. The father seized the
blazing form Of his child from the chair
and, rushing to the sink, with mistaken
zeal turned the water on 1t to put out
the fire His own clothes caught fire,
but he paid no heed, Catching the child
in his arms again, he tore from the house
and dashed through the streets to the
office of DR.. Lagan, at the corner of
Twenty-second and Folsom streets, three
blocks away. Passers-by in the neighbor-
hood of the doctors office were attracted
nv the appearance of q man minus his
coat and hat, with his hair disheveled.
dashing up the street with the speed of
the wind. In the gathering twilight they
could indistinctly see that he held some
thing in his hands, but it was not until
almost at the door of the Doctors office
that they realized the meaning of the
The sidewalk and assisted the Keeling and
exhausted father into II. F. Wynne's
drugstore and thence upstairs TO the
doctors office, The physician did every
thing medical science could suggest to
relieve the little one, but with its hair
burned from It's head, the skin Of its little
bodv blackened and scared by the flames
and its eyes literally cooked In their
sockets its death could only be question
Of time Soothing lotions were applied
to the burns and the child was removed
to it's home, where death ensued at 11:4O
p After caring for the infant the doctor
turned his attention to the father,
who was frightfully burned: His hands
were covered with huge blisters and
burned as though with hot irons; The
injured members were dressed and Tier
ney was placed in bed. where he passed
a sleepless night, despite the drugs ADMIN,
istered to produce sleep, moaning and
calling upon those present to save
ately named. The FIRE is supposed to have
been caused by the explosion of the lamp.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Tierney say there was
no cloth on the kitchen table on which the
lamp stood by which the baby could have
pulled it over on him, and, Furthermore,
they say the baby's chair was several feet
from the table at the time Of the accident.
All yesterday the house Of mourning
was thronged by sympathizers, whose
hushed voices sought to comfort the
childless couple. Time may do what they
could not-bring resignation to the newt
table, but it can never efface the terrible
scene lndelibly stamped on the brains of
the parents.
The funeral will take place, from the
house this morning at II o'clock, Rev
Father Macdonald officiating The in
terment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Mr.. Tierney has hosts Of friends among