Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
HER BLIND
MOTHER FROM
FIERY DEATH
Ms. R. (. Murphy Rouses Fifty
lo,-+ment House Tenants, Who
Flee in Night Clothes,

.s.s- irving her blind mother
.....,- -~4oke and flames to place
....-- Mrs r. f Murphy, wife Of
.-..-,re- Of the Morrow Transfer
-.----- spread an alarm which
....-... saved the lives Of many 9TH
- Wednesday night when fire
g.. ..- n the Frederick Apart
-.. so s52 Whitehall street. Ten
.. - .rs building were profuse in
49, --...s IF her heroism Thursday.
--. r- which was discovered on
.---..= floor II the building, where
,,.--.-e reside, was brought I'M
ST., -..--ar by fremen after about
-. -.r..Ea had been done and so
s,- forced 10 fee in their night
s-,-,rv after Il O'Clock Mrs. Muir
-,, v-. aroused by call from her
.as- vino occupies an adjoining
IN. v-I smell smoker" she asked.
carried Mother TO Street.
r.-. after the words were uttered
.-.., ..as Il roar from the rear of the
....s.,r AS q sheet Of plastering gave
.. before the flames, and the Muir
-....-.-sr.mert was Illuminated by the
gr+r .Ln, Of the fire
sr-r-.ng from her bed, Mrs. Muir
,.,. .-sraa the door to the hallway
.,7 was met by a sheet Of fame.
Minis ,-ire," she ran to the bed
,f her mother and, picking the aged
uor-.r M bodily carried her through
,rs fire and smoke, down the single
s.ys. of stairs into the street.
Raurn.ng to the building, Mrs.
,,--,rv then started the work Of
.,-sas.rg -ae alarm. Sleepy eyed
men women and children answered
,o~ knocks and screams slowly. then
,r. .Iy Joined in rousing the others
Returns for Her Husband.
with an possible speed, Mrs Muir
nh, returned TO her apartment to
nike SIRE whether her husband had
succeeded I'm getting through the
a,uag She met him halfway on the
stairs. Passing him. she burst through
fine smoke and secured a blanket for
her mother and a wrapper for her
self By this time the fire engines De-
gan 10 arrive. scarcely four minutes
/ after the alarm had been turned in.
The framen. led by Chief Cum
rnirgs burst into the building. A
4 number Of the tenants were not yet
out Of their apartments. The firemen
4 with axes broke In the doors and car
Red many from their beds to places
Of safety.
After an hours battle the firemen
succeeded IN extinguishing the flames.
n According to Chief Cummings the
FIRE must have originated in the base
ment Of the apartment house. He at
. trlbuted e to a spark from defective
wiring and said that undoubtedly It
4 had been smoldering since near 6
o'clock in the evening.
Tenants Praise Rescuer.
Only one Of the three apartments
through which the air shaft runs Is
occupied. Jr j. w al ll6lt elllHlOgtu III
The superintendent's office Of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
and family were sound asleep in
tl.s, and had # not been for Mrs
Nurpays screams Mr.. Warner de-
clareI Thursday morning that he and
bis wife and 4-year-old child would
probably have been burned to death,
a Tor had her alarm come a few min
gtes later the exit would have been
blocked by the flames. AS 1t was they
escaped Just i'm time.
All the tenants Thursday gathered
around Mrs. Murphy and many of
them with tears In their eyes thanked
Tie modest little woman.
The building IS owned by F. ]. Cool
edge and is leased by Forrest &
George AdaiT one of the agents for
Acar Brothers estimated the loss
conseryatively at $4,000,