Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-28
MRS, BENJ.CHERR|N
WARNED IN DREAM,
FOUND HOUSE AF|RE
She Said il Was the Voice of Her
Father, Who Died During
War in Russia.
WOMAN AND CHILDREN
RESCUED FROM FLAMES

4 spirit voice saving Get up, daughter.
vour house is afirel'' wakened Mrs. Ben
amin Chcrrin Of S32 Pine street this
morning about ~ ~ q clock. Mrs. Chcrrin
80, mn and sure enough the house was
ablaze.
Mrs. Cherrin was sure u WAS the voice
~ her father. !. kossawitz. who died in
Russia during the war. He came To me in
drram." said she today, in discussing
the matter with reporter OF Every
Evening lie told me to yet up, my hous
was burning got right up and opened my
door and the smoke drove me back. | saw
my father = face in my dream, too. His
words were as plain rs could be.
Arps. Chorrin left both of her parents
m the old country 10 come 10 the United
states She never saw them again. She
heard only since the arnisticc OF her father 5
death and II has sadtiened hn life ever
since to think hc had died wS~SFcr there
and she had been unable to see him or
even attend his funeral.
Realizing that the spirit voice was right.
Mrs. Cherrin's first thought was of her
three little ones asleep in the adjoining
room on the third floor. Clasping Sr
haby. boy of two years, IN Ter arms.
and drawing the other two little bows
after her. she called 10 her husband 10
got IN and started out the back way
climbing out on to a roof over the kitchen.
Nirs. Cherrin. shivering with her babies in
the bitter cold, made her way over 10 the
house next door, occupied by Jacob
Wciner and his family. She knocked on the
door and they let her and her children
in and cared for them the remainder of
the night. The husband followed and he,
too. found a warm bed in the house.
Meanwhile Mr. and fiIs. George Allen
Weeks had been awr Aened in their room
on the second foo OF the burning house.
Mr.. Weeks had been confined TO his bed
with the grip several DAYS He is employed
at the E,lge Moor Iron Works Though
shouts of fire from Mrs Cherrin rang in
his ears, Weeks dressed himself as hurried
II ag possible even To donning collar
and tic His new watch also came 10 mind
End he was particular about saving IT,
As he was dressing his wife gathered UP
her pretty things and threw them across
her arms Then husband and wife made
their way next door to the home of
Daniel Mccarthy, where they were shelter
ed from the cold during the night.
Meanwhile Daniel Mccarthy, s3i
Pine street, saw flames issuing from the
house rs he was returning home from a
lance with some ifieilttS. httaftbS htfl-
ed In an alarm and brought Phoenix,
lndependence, Reliance and Delaware
fire companies to the scene at rush. The
flames were found TO have originated on
the first floor at the partition between the
kitchen and diningrOom. What caused
them has not yet been ascertained. though
the belief is that they were the result of
defectively insulated electric wire. The
fire ate its way UP through the ceiling apd
into the bathroom of the Weeks suite.
Also il ate into the Weiner home slightly,
but enough to almost fill that house with
smoke. With their chemical apparatus the
fireuaen WERE able to extinguish the blaze
after damage of perhaps $500 had been
wrought. The house Is owned by the
Cherrins and they were protected against
oss by insurance. There was no stove or
other heater near the spot where the fire
started.