The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-05-15
Child Lost His Life After
Having Played With
Matches.
POSEY BODY FOUND
Infant Drowned in Trenton Sucked
Into Engines
Hose.
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU.
ALEX ANnRIA " MY l5

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The remains of little Wishard w. Dor
nlni the twO-year-Old child Of Walter
w. Dornin, who was burned 10 death
al his fathers house, at the corner of
AK ana Duke streets, yesterday after
noon, today We're sent to Lynchburg Tor
burial.
Mrs. Dornin was in room on the
lower floor OF her home. the little boy.
as she supposed, being asleep III the
bedroom above when she heard him
screaming, She found the child lying
on the bed, which was adre. She snatch
ed the child from tEe bed, and, running
70 the bathroom, placed him under the
faucet and eXtinguished the blaze, but
not before the child had been so severely
burned that he died soon afterward.
Mrs. Dornin had her hands badly
burned in her efforts to extinguisn the
hre. NeighbOrs who ran in upon hear
ing the child's screams eNtin6uished the
blaze, which had caught two beds.
DR.. Klipsyein DR.. Jones DIT. German,
and Dr. Warfield, Mrs Adamson. ma
trOn OF the Alexandra Hospital, and
Miss Dent, nurse at the hospital. were
summoned. and did everything in their
power TO alleviate the suferings OF the
little one.
ne &AlAiG Is SllAfDSFu 10 nave OlfEllGt
a bureau drawer and taken matches,
and in this manner set nre TO his
clothing and the bed, as a bureau
drawer in which matches Were kept was
found open.
a coroner's jury consisting Of r.
lee Fields, George d, Hopkins, August
UehleFt. Thomas a Fisher. Maurice
wilkins and Robert NJ. Graham. as
sembled at Wheatleys undertaking
rooms last evening TO hold an inquest
over the remains of little Stanley POSey.
the twenty-mOnth-Old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. r.. Maury Posey, of Brooklyn, y,
y, which was swept from his mother $
arms and drowned at the sinking of the
steamer Trenton. at her wharf here
few Sundays ago. The jury viewed the
remains and then adjourned until next
Sunday evening, at 5 O'Clock when the
investigation viii be begun.
The body of Stanley EOSey was sucked
~ from the engine room by the old
fire engine Columbia, which was busy
yesterday pumping the water OUT OF the
Trenton. which has now been raised.
Noble Smith, the engineer OF the Co
Nmbia noticed that the rOW Of water
stopped two or three times and going
into the engine room of the Trenton TO
ascertain the cause OF the stOppage OF
the water, found the body floating
around near the mouth Of the suction
pipe
The State Corporation Commission
has granted a CudTler 10 lHe LtTmludl
TaXiCab Company. incorporated, of this
city. The officers, all OF whom are
from Washington, are as. follows:
President, II. @. Wilson, secretary. J.
H Corning; r. G. Wilson, G. f. Myers
and J. Flckling- The capital stock is
placed at from 81. 90 20 S250.000 and the
objects are TO deal in automobiles and
motor cycles.
4 meeting of the city Democratic COM
mittee was held last evening at the Opera
House Cafe, when arrangements were
completed for the holding of a primary
election in this city on June 9, to nomi-
nate a candidate for Congress TO sue
ceed Charles c. CaTlin. A general cleo
ton for mayor, members OF the common
council and hoard of aldermen also
being held on the same date as the pri-
mary, separate judges and clerks were
elected for the primary.
City Engineer Dunn has returned from
Petersburg and South Boston, where he
went to inspect school buildings which
are In course of erection at those places,
He VIII make drawings OF some of the
buildings he inspected and viii submit
them 10 the school board so that they
can select one for a model for the new
school building 10 be built in upper
Prince street this summer.