Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-03
}IVE5 HER BLIND
MOTHER FROM
FIERY DEATH
g,, R. {. Murphy Rouses Fifty
!o.rtment House Tenants, Who
Flee in Night Clothes.

,..- arriving her blind mother
.-rra smoke and flames to a place
,--ss.r Mrs. R. E. Murphy, wife of
---,Eee Of the Morrow Transfer
-.--srv. spread an alarm which
...1r.- saved the lives of many 9TH
,s.a Wednesday night when fire
-. .-- in the Frederick Apart
~. Nc. $50 whitehall street. Ten
-, n, the building we're profuse in
~ 7-a.se Of her heroism Thursday.
MI, ERE which was discovered on
,...,or5 aoor Of the building, where
=. 1,u-prys reside, was brought un-
- control by firemen after about
,.a,a damage had been done and 50
..-s,rs forced TO fee in their night
clothes
SHORTY after II o'clock Mrs. Muir
.r was aroused by a call from her
r,..s- who occupies an adjoining
room.
IN, .7r smell smoker" she asked.
Carried Mother to Street.
Inc. after the words were uttered
..s-s vas d roar from the rear Of the
b,rs+-g as a sheet Of plastering gave
n,,. before the flames, and the Muir
--.. srar-ment was illuminated by the
rrf5 light Of the fire.
sr-.-rfrg from her bed, Mrs. Muir
,-r apaned the door to the hallway
and was met by a sheet Of flame
s,-aamrrg FIRE." she ran to the bed
NJ her mother and, picking the aged
woman un bodily carried her through
,re fire and smoke, down the single
e.r-r Of stairs into the street.
Returning to the building, Mrs
,rr~rry then started the work OF
srra9s.nz the alarm Sleepy eyed
men, women and children answered
her ,no.ss and screams slowly, then
rs.v Joined in rousing the others
Returns for Her Husband.
with all possible speed, Mrs, Muir
rr. returned 10 her apartment to
.. sure whether her husband had
-r.ar.gf % getting through the
a..a- she met him halfway on the
,-..s Passing him, she burst through
... smoke and secured a blanket for
Har mother and a wrapper for her
self Br this time the fire engines be-
Gan 10 arrive. scarcely four minutes
after ,Ha alarm had been turned IN.
The fremen, led by Chief Cum
nrg- burst into the building. A
number 0f the tenants were not yet
OFT ~ their apartments. The firemen
with axes broke in the doors and car
r.e5 many from their beds to places
Of safety
After an hours battle the fremen
succeeded tn eytinguishing the flames.
according TO Chief Cummings the
r. must have originated in the base
uent Of the apartment house. He at
tr'buted II 20 a spark from defective
wiring and said that undoubtedly II
had been smoldering since near
o'clock In the evening.
Tenants Praise Rescuer.
Only one Of the three apartments
through which the air shaft runs is
occupied. J. T Warner, employed in
the supert1tendents office OF the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
and family were sound asleep in
This, and had Il not been for Mrs.
Nurpays screams Mr.. Warner de-
Shared Thursday morning that he and
his wife and 4-year-old child would
probably have been burned to death,
for had her alarm come a few min
ates later the exit would have been
blocked by the flames. AS It was they
escaped Just in time.
Al, the tenants Thursday gathered
around Mrs. Murphy and many OF
them with tears in their eyes thanked
The modest little woman.
The building is owned by F. ]. Cool
edge and is leased by Forrest &
George Adair one of the agents for
A1air Brothers estimated the loss
conservatively at $1,000.