The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1907-12-28
bhee and Hazel Lee Dead and Mn Minnie Myers and Agnes Hill Badly
Bunedes Were Asleep When Conagratn Started
Spread and Infants Are Cut Off From Rescue

THE DEAD.
Hazel Lee years old.
IRIS crabtree, 4 months old.
THE INJURED
Mrs Minnie Myers burned about face back and
Miss Agnes Hil nurse shoulder wrenehed and face
hEused
Despite heroic efforts to save all two children OF 25
xers burned % death IN fire which destroyed the receiving
home Of the Washington Chdrrns Home Finding association
Il Mortimer the Seattleracoma nterurban between Fos
etsnd Riverton about O'Clock this morning.
Hazel Les, years old, and Iris Crabtrce months old
eneoped in flames in the nursery before either Of the
i've adults in the building could reach them Their charred
bodies still lying in the ruins II o'clock this morning
-Four other children literally snatched from the flames
the nursery by Miss Agnes Hill and Miss May nurses
ad u older children saved by the heroic efforts Of Mrs
Minnie Myers the matron, T. G. Subway. hired man, and
Mrs. f. {. SUBWAY cook at the home
How Fire Started
The fire started behind the in the nursery tho
hack OF the second floor Some clothing hung dry back
H the stove took fire and within few minutes the nursery
~ fed win flames The flames spread ~ quickly that 4
vas practically impossible the babies who lost
their lives there but entrance to the nursery and
that oil BY fire
Everyone with the exception Of Baer the night nurse
sleeping when the fire broke and saved any
rctng all escaping in their night clothes They cared
or by neghbors and furnished with temporary clothing
Miss Bae the night had been in the nursery
before the fire started She had just stepped through
rs door 70 60 % her room 70 he down when there was
fash from the nursery Running back Miss Baer that
The clothing back Of the blazing Franticay she
tore the clothing down trying to extingush the fire but it
spread with incredible apdy The paper the wall caught
from the clothing and the flames quickly the ceiling and
nom there spread through the room.
Nurse Gives Alarm
Then Miss Baer seized Chester Cook aged weeks. and
NeHatehee Lee aged weeks and rushed from the room
with them to the matrons IN the front Of the second
ioor giving the alarm As she ran.
Miss Agnes Him. day awakened by her cries
and ran % the nursery The stove from which the fire caught
the only door TO the nursery and Miss Hill had to
rush past the flames reach the sleeping children She grab
bed up Johnnie Glover and Chester Wilson both 2year-od
boys and tried carry them back through the door but she
found her escape blocked by the flames and turned back
me With difficulty she found her way window
through the sitting smoke and succeeded in raising Il She
dropped two children 10 the ground some Is feet below
and JUMPED after them Neither child hurt but Miss
M sustained wrenched shoulder and bruised lace from her
Rescue Is Blocked
Finding that the children safe, Miss Hill rushed
70 the front entrance join the Of the older children
After carrying her charges 70 safety Miss Baer the night
attempted the nursery but the flames
ptey blocked the doorway Mrs Myers Mr. and Mrs Shum-
way also rushed to the nursery. but rescue mpos-
se and the three turned their saving the 10
older children, all OF whom slept the second floor in the
front portion Of the house
Crazed with fear the awakened children made the work
rescue difficult Scuryng hther and hither in panic
they seized by the older people and hurried down the
stairs and the wet ground in their night clothes
But when child carried TO safety continued
rush mady about Most Of the children chung the nighi
back into the building and had be driven ont second
time l. all that the five grown people could do 10 get
nc children out OF the burning building and keep them IN
safety
Returns TO Building.
Even after all the children we're out with the exception
the caught by the flames in the nursery the cry
up that other children were in the building
Despite the flames Matron Minnie Myers dashed up the
burning stairway and made round Of the which the
flames had reached. but found Returning she
iound the stairway Of flames and escape apparently
off
Jumping over the balustrade to the stairs beov Mrs
Myers dashed through the flames and rushed from the build
ing with her night clothes fire The flames promptly
smohered by the others but Mrs Myers had been painfully
burned about the head and shoulders
She taken a neghborng house and cared for until
NE arrival Of doctor this morning The doctor dressed her
injuries and her to the Seattle General hospital
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