Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-11

rear wing of the school at her studies.
detected smoke and Immediately cried
"Fire!" Her seatmate, Miss Stella
Brooker recently of Denver, rushed to
the window and confirmed the danger.
The shout of alarm almost threw
the young women in the class into &
panic but the principal calmed them
and told them to remain at their desks
until he investigated.
He saw smoke issuing from the VIM
dows next door and instructed a student
to rush to the nearest alarm box Then
| in no undue haste he dismissed the
girls and also the boys on the floor
| They formed a Gordon around the
burning flats at once. waiting for the
| firemen and doing what they could for
the excited sufferers.
| Mrs. Myrick. who conducts a dress
making school in the lower fiat, west
end of the burning building, was the
! first of the tenants to rush to the porch
shouting "Fire!"
Through a series of errors the de-
partment was slow in arriving. The first
| person to rush to the red box merely
broke the glass, thinking that would
bring the firemen. Some wiser person
passed by and gave the alarm proper
ly by pulling down the automatic hook.
Some woman also called up the fire
| 0eDaTI0enL DY I6lGpIlOncy SllOuICQ
| citedly that there was fire and hung
up the receiver without saying who
she was and where the flames were
raging.
Youths as Firemen
| The students in body without lead
ership poured into the burning house,
a dozen to each fiat, and each for him
sef began throwing goods from doors
and windows.
Older boys, led by John J. Lynn, Van
| Wrinkle, Harold Cast, Harry Hainert
and others, climbed to the roof of the
/ BroWnsberger school, dragged up the
hose and played streams of water on
| the roof and on the sides nearest the
| burning fiat.
Later they dragged carpets and rugs
to the roof spread them on the shin
! giles and kept them soaked. This ef-
| fectually kept the embers from getting
q foothold.
Some brave spirits remained inside
| the school to avert what seemed to be
inevitable damage or destruction.
Young Women Act Quickly
Miss Nellie B. Dunlap, a former St.
| Louis girl, private secretary at the IN
stitution, seized all valuable books ana
papers she could and pitched them INTO
| the Sabe.
Miss Daisy Brownsberger, whose
mother owns the school, went into all
corners of the building to make sure
that no girls had tainted or suffocated,
and that no boy had been hurt. MISS
| Brownsberger also telephoned the nrS
headquarters, asking for addltlohal
companies, as only one responded IN
the weary trip up the steep hill at
| Seventh street.
The firemen devoted themselves to
saving the adjoining property when
they finally got to work. The Mon
| talVo apartments on one side were
scorched by the fire, and the tenants
hurriedly moved out, but the flames
did not spread.
The tenants in the flats were mostly
| absent on business when the fire broke
out but neighbors telephoned them
and one by one they came back to find
| their effects in ashes or water soaked
and people standing by, sympathetic,
but able to do but little to amellorate
| their condition.
On nearby lawns, terraces, sidewalks
and streets wagon loads of furniture
trunks, wearing apparel, paper and or
namental effects and keepsakes were
scattered making a sad picture.
All of this, however, was not badly
damaged and the owners, none or
| whom carried insurance, felt debt OF
gratitude to the boys who had torn
something from the wreck for them.
Neighbors invited the losers to store
| their effects at their dwellings and
spend the night there, but in most
cases the tenants were able to rent va
cant rooms and send for wagons to
carry their chattels away before the
evening news came.
Sick Woman Escapes
Mrs. and Miss Martin are both teach
ers.
Mrs. Martin was away, as it was
visiting day at her school. The daugh-
ter who teaches at Ocean Park, was
sick in bed, but managed to make her
way to the street, escaping the sitting
smoke with rare good fortune. Weak
though she was, she bravely tried to
! gather her possessions together, hoping
| in vain that she could get a message to
her mother to bring her back at once.
Heber Jones of 427 Miami avenue, en-
route to Judge Frederickson's court as
@ witness, assisted at the fire and. was
partially overcome by smoke. He was
sent to the receiving hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan Creiton came
| here ONLY a few weeks ago from Buff
falo N. Y. and had established deli
| catessen store on West Seventh street.
Mrs. Myrick, almost beside herself
with grief, said she did not know what
to do, as the fire would drive her busi-
ness away, besides wrecking her pos
| sessions.
The Whitmans are young bridal
couple. They were married only few
weeks ago, sprprise for the brides
mother, Mrs. Flora L. Kreitzman.
Young whitman sprained his wrist in
handling a big trunk.
Women in Distress
The Marsh family suffered severely
through the fire.
Mrs. Marsh, widow for years, pre-
served her GOODNESS during the trying
| hour and even warned neighbors to
zeal, however, she overlooked her own
papers, and life insurance policy and
cash money were burned.
Miss Pearl Marsh, stenographer in
the Currier building. was at her Office
telephone when some one phoned her
that her house was atire. She tried to