The sun., 1908-12-20
BOY SAVES BABY AT A FIRE
d-YEAR-OLD VERY SENSIBLE
IN BURNING TENEMENT.
Alone With Sister and Brother on Third
F1esr Of Flaming Building, He Buries
Infant In Bed and Covers II Win His
Own Body-Firemen Find Him There.

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FIesr Of Flaming Building, He Burie,
Infant In BED and Covers u with Hi
Own BOdy-Firemen Find Him There
Flye-year.old James jackson showed
Carnegie medal qualities last night In q
fire in his home at 2Oes Atlantic avenue.
Brooklyn, at which not only he but his
brother and sister were badly burned
James's baby brother, Peter. In going to
die from the injuries he received. The
fire started just before supper time.
while the mother Of the children was out
for groceries When she returned the
flames were roaring up the airshaft and
starting to mushroom at the roof.
MY babies!" she screamed. Where
s"e the babies?' A quick search among
the rescued showed that Mrs. Jackson o
children we're still inside the building, and
at once half a dozen firemen started in
after them.
The stairways we're gone and flames
were squirting out of the windows and
across the fire escapes. but the firemen
took the chance to get TO the third floor.
on which the Jacksons live. Charles
Payne was first in. Fireman MaoGreKor
and Edward Gross OF Truck 20 followed
right along. They found entrance i'm
possible till hose passed up behind
them washed out q way
Than Aounderinp thro,, oh tha ,,onla
of water, blear eyed and coughing from
the smoke, they CROPPED their way into the
rooms They heard the cry Of q child
In the back of the room the smoke got
thicker and the firemen had TO creep along
with their noses TO the floor for air
Finally they got to the bedroom door
behind which the children could be heard
weeping. Payne threw his weight against
IL, and it fell in, hinges and all. Every
thing within was abla1e. The three chill
dren were huddled in bed In the corner
Take Peter frst!" sasped james.
Hes littlest.'
But there were three firemen, and the
three children all went out together.
Though the fremen had been in the rooms
no more than two minul es they were hardly
able to swing through the windows to
the fire escape down which their COM
rades assisted them, Once on the side
walk James's sister. Martha, 3 years old.
told what he had done.
Ii seems, from her story, that the fire
was licking up the wickerware on the baby
in which little Peter was lying.
when James tipped il ovsr. dragged his
brother out and tucked him into the
bed IN the corner. Then-t the fire grew
fercer and both he and Martha burrowed
the bedclothes too. To pro-
tect Peter further from the flames james
had covered the baby's body with his
own.
They lay there crying for what seemed
like an hour TO them. When the iiremen
finally got there the bedclothes under
which they were crouchinE were ahame.
Ambulance surgeons found all the
children badly burned. The baby Peter,
whom James had made such efforts to
save, probably will die after all. The
flames had reached his dress even before
James rescued him from the baby car
riage and must have been smouldsring
under the bedclothes all the time while
The children awaited the coming Of help.
The baby was taken to st. Mary's Hos
pital, James was burned about the face
and neck and Martha had her hand
,oorched, but neither was badly enough
hurt TO warrant being sent to the hos
oital, The damage done by the fire was !
about $500. The cause is unknown.
While the firemeu were getting the |
blaze under control CT alarm was turned |
n from the building at A Chester street
/ quarter Of mile away, Before this
Ire was put out it had spread to the tene-
nent next door, at 10. The damage was
/. 100.
From there Chief Lally had To rush
/ third Of a mile to Christopher and Lib
'rty streets, where a fire had started in
storage room OF the men and women's
llothing manufsctory OF Frank. Anich
Co, In the building we're 200 men and
women, but all reached the street safely
The damage was 81, 800.