New-York tribune., 1902-02-02

the bed. Instead, they hugged each other all
the more tightly. and soon the END came. F'reda
became unconscious and Joe" gasping for
breath called to her not to go to sleep. But it
was but a few minutes when he too. lapsed
into unconsciousnesS
When the door was broken in by Policeman
Charles Greber Of the Church-st. station, who
discovered the smoke coming through the hall
way. he found the children locked in each 9TH
er's arms near the wall under the bed. They
were still unconscious, but before an ambulance
call was sent in they We're dead. The kitten lay
dead between its playmates.
Joseph. the father, came here with his wife
and children from Germany a year ago. He is
q wheewright, but for the last few months he
had been unable to get work. and the little
family suffered severely from want. There were
times when there was little TO eat in the house,
but the mother and father deprived themselves
OF the necessaries of life Jh4r their children
would not feel the pangs of hunger. Nelghbors
in the house called the attention of the clergy
Of Trinity Church TO the needs OF the Beyers,
with the result that the sufferiHgs Of the family
alleyiated.
cleaner in the Office building at No. 100 Will
iam-st-, but her husband was not so successful,
although he trudged the city every day, seeking
work. The little children were sent 70 trinity
School
Every day at about 453O. p. m. the mother
left the house TO 20 to work, and, fearing that
something might happen 10 Fer children if they
were allowed the street without her. she
locked them in the room. This one room has
been the home OF the Beyers since the father
lost his position six months ago They have
been 50 poverty stricken that they We're com
PEELED TO sell the little furniture they had, from
time 20 time, they could have food and
clothing.
When the mother left the room yesterday af-
ternoon she locked The children in. She had
not been gone long when joe and Freda de-
cided TO play soldiers. The lad got stick, and
stuck end Of it in the stove, igniting il. Then
he and his little sister paraded around the room,
singing songs. Suddenly the shrek Of the
whistle Of an elevated train outside startled the
lad and he dropped the flaming brand in a cor
Of the room.
There was no carpet the floor and the
woodwork started burn. Thoroughly fright
ened, joe and Freda tried to stamp the fire
up the side Of the wall. Half craZed with fear,
the little brother and sister rushed to the door,
but only 10 find il locked. The windows We're
closed tightly and the terror stricken children
that there escape. Then II was
that they seized their pet kitten and crawled
under the bed.
Policeman Greber smoke issuing from
the lower hallway, and he rushed upstairs and
burst IN the door where the children were. He
nobody in the room, he downstairs
and turned in an alarm The flames gain
ing headway, but the fremen on their arrival
eXtinggished the blaze before IL spread 10 the
building
Afte- the fire put out and the hremen
were about TO leave the burned ROOM Police
man Greber saw a little foot under the bed in
the corner Of The room. He uttered cry, and
the fremen rushed back. The bed pulled
out from the wall and the little forms revealed.