The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-13

the smoke with his head lowered down the
stairway and his arms outstrefched Mr..
Morris night garments were burned from
his body in places and his foot, caught on
the carpet. told the story or his death
He had died while running through the
hall, battling through fire and smoke ana
blinded by the fury OF il all. shouting 10
his sister TO save herself. and 10 Thoroughly
arouse them all TO an appreciation or the
danger he had attempted to get TO them
and guide them to safety. Mr.. Morris In
all Iikelihood-it will never be known just
how IL happened-stumbled and Tell 10 MS
death. Lying on the floor ana unaole 10
rise because Of weakness from MS exer-
tions, he must have breathed the smoke
and hot air until Inconsistencies renewed
him of the pain and allowed him 10 SINK
slowly TO death.
SEARCH FOR OTHERS.
After Mr. Morris's body had been carried
out by the salvage corps. the search for
other bodies was begun. and soon the little
form OF twelve-year-old Frank Haas was
found in his bedroom, burned considerably,
with the clothing of his bed and person
burned, TO show the suffering he must
have borne before relieved by death. The
little boy was carried tenderly from the
house by the firemen and salvage men.
their rough coats and garments serving 10
protect them from the fire and water and
sheltering their hearts, which were touched
and appalled, at the horror of IL all. When
the little boy and his uncle had been
placed on the porch, the firemen turned
streams of water into the house and cooled
IL sufficiently TO permit an investigation OF
the cause of the fire.
The fire, which originated in the cellar,
had burned furiously,~ and had destroyed
the front part of the house and the lower
floor The parlors. drawing room, recep-
ton room and hallway were Quilted by the
flames and the furniture burned 10 1ndls-
tinguishable ashes. The walls were black
ened. and in places showed the outer wall
of brick. In the hallway. where the fire
was the fiercest, the stairway only re-
manned to show of the furniture OF the
room. Back to a narrow halfway running
across the house, and separating the living
rooms of the house, the dining room, kitch-
en- and pantries, the house was DESTROYED
In the rear part the rooms were only dam
aged by fire and smoke and the incidental
rough usage of the firemen In fighting the
fire through that portion Of the building.
Upstairs the destruction was similar. In
the hallway the destruction was complete,
but in the bedrooms and sitting rooms open
ing from IL little damage was done aside
from smoke and water, as the heavy doors
prevented the progress OF the fire In these
directions.
part OF the house the fire did not penetrate,
but IL succeeded in entering the room or
Frank Haas. across the hail. The door or
the little boys room his mao and Sovern
ess to hear him should he call for them
during the night.
Dr. Haas was in Lima, Ind, visiting his
son Morris, a student In the Howe Military
School. In his and the guests room the
destruction was complete, as the doors nad
been left open.
Mrs. Haas's room. as we'll as those of her
daughters, were only damaged by smoke
and water, but the dense volume OF smoke
which nearly suffocated them before they
We're rescued was evidenced after the fire
had been extinguished by the clouds which
hung In the rooms when explored by the
firemen.