The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-08-27
Mrs. Frances Warren Perish
ing and Three Children
Meet Tragic Death at Pres
lido Near San Francisco.
HUSBAND IN COMMAND
OF BORDER TROOPS
Old Frame Dciding, Used for
Officers Quarters Proves
Fire Trap; Victims Perish
With Resouers Nearby.
Lnr Erenlnr IIeraIa f.en,.a NIL

lBy Evening Herald fca,ed wirel
san Francisco, Aur. 24.--Mrs. Fran
ces warren Pcrshng. wife OF Brig
adler General John }. pershing. q. $.
4. ana three OF her four childrcu.
were sunocnicd TO- death in their
quarters at the Preside OF san Fran
cisco early today. The bodies we're
nudly burned. Mrs, Walter %. B0s-
well. relative. and her two chid-
ron. escaped as d.d Warren Porsning.
%, and three servants. The dead
children are Helen. 5: Anne. Z. and
May Margaret g. Mrs. porshing b.
daughter of Senator Warren OF Wy
oming ltcr husband. commanding
the Eighth BRIGADE. United states IN
fantry, iH 40 10 raso. Texas. IN charge
OF the border troops.
Mrs. Boswell was The first of the
people in the house to discover the
IRE. She was aroused by the smoke
ana uwlHcncd her children ana called
to Mrs. Pcrshng Then she opened
the door from her room to the hall.
a gust of smoke drove her back and
she encountered flames IN the hall
way she took her children Co the
stairway but found t cut off by fire.
ana rctrcatcd through her room To
the roof uf the 'front.' porch.
The noise OF tho names hy this time
had aroused Lieut. Eugene santschi.
Twenty infantry. Private e. j.
iinzclctt and another soldier. who
broke iu tho doors of the house but
were forced back by the flames. Then
Mrs Boswell from the porch roof
threw her two children. Philip aud
James. SIX and three years old. still
calling Co Mra Pcrshiug. and jumped
herself Her maid previously had
jumped ana been caught. Mrs. Bus-
well fcll boo flower bed. wreuchinE
her back. She was taken to the Pre-
hdiu hospital
Warren pcrshlng was found uncon-
scious un. the floor ot % room hy
johnson. the porshing'a AGED negro
servant who led q rescue party INTO
the house lic was revived at the
.rro.idio hospital
ln the corner oc the house most
burned the rcscucrs found Mis-. Per
shing dead Uu the floor with hor arms
across ono ut the children, who was
on the bed on another bed was am
other child. the third lay ON the
floor. Tho bodies of an were cuusid-
.cubly burned
Apparently Mrs Pcrshine. aroused
by tho smoke and possibly by Mrs.
BosweH's repeated efforts Co awaken
her both from the hall and the front
porch roof. had gone through the
smoke and 0re To- the room where
Helen and Anne slept and brought
them with her. Warrrn's room was
inaccessible tl her.
The fire destroyed one corner of
, the house. Nlmod to the roof and
, caused % Co collapse.
Major Henry a whitney conn
manding th, Preside, Immediately ap-
pointed % hulrd cot inquiry to report
ON the fire Ilc named ON 1t Major
. James q. Iurhurd, First cavalry
Major W. o. Lewis, medical corps
and Lieutenant Rutherford $. liurtl
Twenty ulmtry.
The business mems camp, recently
u opened 500 lh, rrcsidiu, WAS close q
th, p.r.uu quarters. Members %
inc ramp rallied Ca the call for ai'
and took pate u the lighting Of IN
rrr aud tnu pes uins ot bodies iron
. the house
b Tho board OF inquiry found thn
two -rHtr Ir.s had been burning .
thr house Ist night a hole wu
b, found burned 10 he ceiling uf the du
' ur room vI.t w1s Dl'u tn indiout
r thlt u.r ,.a might have fullr
from th, .IH.r ON the SECOND flou
ANA burned through. The course ,
ifho fire V.. nom The dining ruoI
y into ur ban and up snirwa
o Goo the SECOND floor,
.s. Lieut. boswell whose wife csgapc'
.. b.. lu D,u.. Yn sick lcovo