The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
LEWIS FAMILY HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
Babe Is Barely Rescued from
Burning Home
THE FATHER IS INJURE D
Official Count of Tuscaloosa County.
DR.. Joseph Cochran of Philadel-
phia Addresses Students at
State University.

Tuscaloosa, November 9.-(Special)-
News reached town this morning of q
disastrous and well-nlgh fatal fire that
occurred on the place of w. d. Lewis
who is farming a few miles out of town
Mr.. Lewis was formerly manager of the
Bell Telephone company at this place
but about two years ago bought a farm
here and since that time has conducted a
successful diversified farm
1t seems that Mr.. Lewis and his family
had retired for the night last night, and
were awakened by a loud noise. Mr. Lewis
got up to see what was the matter and
discovered that it was the chimney of an
adjoining room falling in, the other half
of the house being then practically con-
sumed with the flames He rushed back
and got his family out as quickly as
possible from the burning building, when
he discovered that the baby had been
left in its cradle in his room. Mr.. Lewis,
though the room was furnace of flames,
rushed back into the fire, seized a blanket
and wrapped the baby in it and rushed
from the room. As he reached the door
the ceiling fell, some burning timbers
falling ON Mr.. Lewis and burning him
very painfully, though he was able to
get out All of the rest of the house
was consumed in a few minutes.
The entire home and one or two out
houses were complete wreck. There
was $500 insurance on the house, though
this does not cover half the loss. Mr.
Lewis received prompt medical attention
ana while his face and back are both
badly burned, 1t is not thought that he
is seriously injured.
The official vote of this county gave the
following to national and state candidates:
Democratic 1882, independent l, populist
s, prohibition II, republican 1853, David
son wing AZ, socialist 49, State ticket;
Hobson 1772, Nations 1873. Charles Hen
derson 1873, Hurst 1S1, Crawford l, May
field 1889, Simpson 177S, Curtis 125, Stern
field 124, Bromberg II. New counties:
165 for, 1864 against: Good roads: 565 for,
1850 against: Biennial sessions 226 for 49S
against. There were 200 votes cast in the
county.
DR.. Joseph Cochran of Philadelphia, cor
responding secretary of the educational
board of the Presbyterian church in
America, delivered a strong sermon at the
Presbyterian church here yesterday morn
ing. Last night he addressed the students
of the university in Clark hall. Quite
a number of town people went out to hear
the address which was a strong and effec-
tive appeal to the college students to
lead Christian lives. His theme was 1.-THE
Laboratory Method in Religion" The
speaker was accorded a most attentive
hearing.
An enthusiastic meeting by the young
men of all the Sunday schools of the
city was held yesterday afternoon at the
Baptist church. An instructive and in
teresting programme was carried out and
the meeting was altogether a great i'm
petus to Sunday school work in this city.
The following gentlemen of the city made
talks on the occasion: Sunday School
Movement" Daniel Collier; 1.-THE Church s
Need of Sunday School," B. A. Small;
THE Good of Organized Classes" Judge
H B. Foster and T. B. Ward; How
to Get Young Men Into the Sunday
School," T. II. Beverley, c. M. Avres,
Estes Snedecor, S. II. Sprott, Jr., and R.
II. Scrivener.