Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-18
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q Day Nursery q Cincinnati With
Ito Little Inmates Destroyed
BY Fire.
Babes and Their Attendants Cut
on From Escape BY the
Flames.
Shock Caused BY Husbands Suicide
Causes Chicago Woman's
Death.

Cincinnati o., Sept. IA branch
nursery of the Salvation Army at No.
403 East Front street burned last even
ing and its occupants were imprisoned
$50 that Ave were suffocated to death
and others seriously injured.
At 4:50 p. m. Walter Fisher, bar
keeper in an adjoining saloon. discoy-
erred the fire and sent in still alarm.
The firemen rushed into the blazing
mission to rescue women and children,
but most of those on the upper floors
We're beyond help. The patrol wagons
dashed with all possible speed to the
hospitals with those that were rescued
and their cries were heard along the
streets. All of the hospital physicians
were called in and the nurses did their:
utmost to revive those suffering from
burns.
The building was a four-story tene-s
ment.
The first floor was used as a church,
the second as headquarters for the des-
titute and for cooking and the upper
floors for the nursery. The women and
children could be seen from the upper
stories pleading for help when the stair
ways We're eEveloped in flames. The
fire was soon controlled, but not until
many had died from suffoca ton and
others We're seriously burned On ac-
count of the cold weather yesterday a
fire had been started in the stove for
the little tots who are cared for there
during the day while their mothers are
engaged at work elsewhere. 1t Is
Thought that this caused the fire thru
some defect in the flues or other parts
of the building. Most of the mothers
knew nothing OF the calamity until they
were thru with their days work. They
then began hunt at the mOrgue for
1.-THE dead or at the hospitals for the In.
Ijured. At both of these places as well
as about the burned building the scenes
We're understandable.
The fire occurred near the river front,
I the most densely populated part OF the
city. The nursery is near the old Spen-
Ger house and children from that tene-
ment were in the burned building. Capt.
Lodge was suffocated while carrying
children from the floor. John Hawkins,
who lives in the old Spencer house, now
fused as tenement quarters, lost his lie
while endeavoring to save his children.
The patrol wagons rushed to the hos
pitfalls first and there separated.the dead
from the dying before going TO the
morgue. {.
The mission was in charge Of Stan
CAPTAINS Erickson. Anderson and Nc
Kenny, who conducted kindergarten
as well as other instructions for the lit
tile, ones while their mothers were
.working out Captain Erickson re-
Gently arrived from New York to super
intend the instruction.
The dead are:
James Harkins, painter. aged 40 pears
| Herbert Harkins, aged years, son of
james Harkins.
Rhcfa Harkins, aged months
Maggie Williams aged months.
Edward Mullen, aged years.
Myrtle Farrell aged s years.
The following are fatally injured and
mot expected to survive:
Post Captain Elizabeth Erickson. of
New York, a native Of Sweden, aged 20.
STAFF Captain Bertha Anderson. Of
Chicago, aged IS, also native OF
| Sweden.
/ The following are seriously injured
/ and are in great agony, but are ex-
pected to recover:
Bessie, Atkins, aged 5 years.
Frank Hall, aged 2 months.
Albert Hill. aged years.
Joseph Benton, aged -. years.
All of the dead bodies We're burned to
4 a crisp and the charred remains OF
James Harkins We're clasping what was
left OF his little son Herbert. All OF the
victims and those injured belonged IN
1.-THE nursery except James Harkins, who
1came to the rescue of his orphans
There were only twenty in the nur-
sery on the upper floors at the time OF
1.-THE fire and eight Of them escaped with
out injury.