Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-19
CHILD SEEKS
MOTHER IN
DEBRIS Of
FLAMES
Three Dead, One Missing and
Two Injured in Disastrous
Fire at WaycroSS, Ga.
BOARDING HOUSE OVER
GARAGE is DEATH TRAP

WAYCROSS. GA. June 19-The
bodies of three victims burned in the
$4,000 fire which destroyed the English
building, moving picture theater and
several smaller structures here last
hight we're recovered this morning.
rho dead are
MRS. D. B. ENGLISH, widow of Dan
Broadway English.
MRS. JOHN b. GAMBLE wife Of a
linotype operator.
PAUL GAMBLE, nine-year-old son
# Mrs John D. Gamble
ii G.. Lee and Alvin Johnson. who
i Gre badly hurt by jumping from the
.econd floor. are in serious condition.
II is feared they may not survive.
fourth body. that of a missing
1 aite man. is believed to be under the
loris.
NJ day long today, while the tiremen
ses,rrhad among the ruins of the Eng
ifsh building and the garage where the
blaze was started by a workman 9
rshted match thrown into gasoline, lit
t}c Margaret English, whose mother
was burned to death, chung about the
pot Weeping historically and begging
TO enter the charred debris. She had
seen her mothers body taken from the
wreckage of the boarding house upon
the second floor but the seven year
old child could not believe she was
dead.
Before the body was recovered the
child sought frantically to break away
from those who detained her to run
back into the flaming building and
bring out her mother. 1t is feared that
the child will not survive the horror of
the tragedy.
investigation today proves that
workman. smoking in the garage on
the first floor of the building, against
all rules. tossed the match he lit into a
corner of the room where several gal
Ions of kerosene were stored. Flames
fairly burst from the building. In less
than minute the garage was raging
furnace and tongues of fire shot up
ward and encompassed the whole porch
Of the boarding house on the second
floor. where several men. women and
children were sitting.
RESCUE WORK
DONE IN DARKNESS.
The fremen reached the scene to find
that the blaze had already doomed the
house. though less than half of the oc-
cupants had escaped. Al the same mo-
ment the electric light connections were
burned out and all the rescue work was
done in darkness. except wher the fire
men carried lanterns into the smoke
filled rooms Of the building So swift
was the progress Of the flames that
John Gamble and his little son escaped
gin. while Mrs. Gamble. fully dressed
in room within, was burned to death
before she could find an exit.
In the same way Mrs. English and
the other Gamble boy lost their lives
Firemen fought desperately to reach
them. and several men just missed
death beneath the falling walls
The moving picture theater caught
fire ten minutes after the flames first
broke forth, but the audience had suffi-
cient warning to rush to the street in
safety. A Chinese laundry next door
also burned.
Many automobiles were burned in the
garage.
The hremen succeeded in combining
the flames to one side OF the street and,
after a four hours fight, succeeded in
saving the handsome Logan LaGrande
building.
How much of the loss is covered 10y
Insurance is not know yet