The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-12-09
TRAGIC DEATH OF BABY GIRL AND FOUR YEAR BOY OLDER BROTHER
 ESCAPES WITH LIFE Many Firemsn Burned as They Fight to Get
 Little Ones. PRIEST BAPTISES
 DYING CHILDREN Doctors Adopt Heroic Meas ures In Vain Fight
  Against Death -- Dead Children Alone in Home May Have Set Fire to House.

The lives of two little children were snuffed out, and a third almost lost, in a fire that racked the home of MT in fire that wrecked the home of MT. street, at 10 o'clock this morning. The victims are Joseph Sullivan. a nephew. aged 4 years. and Mary, the baby daughter. youngest of four chill dren. The third, who escaped with his life with painful burns, is Henry. oldest son. who after working all night at the Locomobile Company. awoke to find flames on all sides. Hundreds of hysterical women sur rounded the home while half dozen doctors strove to save the oying chill dren by heroic means
 While both parents were absent at their daily toll and the older brother slept, the youngsters were left to amuse themselves. Bremen believe the children played with the kitchen stove and started the flames Mrs other half of the house. discovered the fire only when the smoke began to pour through the partition walls into her home, and just before Henry, awakened by the suffocating smoke, ran out to the back yard.
 Too dazed to be of assistance, Henry could not tell the anxious neighbors whether the little ones were safe, but as if by instinct he re- turned into the house again and again seeking them- Only when com pletely worn out, strangling from smoke and suffering intensely from burns, did he relinquish his task in favoF-of the firemen.
 Delay caused by transformation may have cost the lives of the two little ones. The chemical engine crew were led to believe the mother and two children were in the kitchen. xuh h fah rrvoG able furnace. They turned their at- tention to that portion of the house trying to subdue the flames, while the boy and girl were above in the smoke and flames
 The chemical engine responded to a telephone call from the home of Investigator Morrissey of the Chari- ties department, and Fireman Martin taking in the gravity of the situation at a glance sounded the alarm.
 Nearly every fireman who answer ed the alarm suffered some sort of burn. None was seriously hurt but in the struggle to force back the flames all ventured so close to the burning structure that sparks and flashes of flames were blown upon them.
 Father Dai1me, pastor of St. Jo- seph's German Roman Catholic church, who responds to nearly all fire alarms in his vicinity arrived on the scene DefOre the nttle cnlldren had expired, and he administered to both the sacrament of baptism.
 The first alarm was given when Henry Sullivan reached the back yard. His cries attracted the atten- ton of Silas Banks. a negro living nearby on High street. He com municated the alarm to the neigh borhood, resulting in the telephone call for the chemical crew. He tried to get into the house but was forced back by clouds of smoke and sheets of fame.
 Mrs. Sullivan, as was her custom. left the kitchen fire regulated so that she would find it ready to prepare the midday meal. The head of the house. hold, a building laborer, had gone to his work in the early morning, and she soon followed. going to the rooms of the Equa club. over Lanes con- fectionery store in Main street, to clean. Henry retired after breakfast. and the other children were sent to school while the two smallest in the household were left to amuse them selves.
 At 10 o'clock Mrs. Buckley busy with her housework detected smoke and making a hurried investigation found it pouring through crevices be- tween her home and that of the Sul- | livans in the same building She | hurried to the back yard and saw Henry Sullivan: clad in his night clothing. staggering through the back | door charred and burned. unable to | see and scarcely able to breathe be- cause of the smoke.
 With a few breaths of fresh air. | he revived enough to realize the dan back into the now fiercely burning | structure. only to he driven back by | the flames. He was still rushing fin and out the building when the fire-