Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-11
Three Girls Hurt;
Many Flee Fires
Continued from Page Ore


Public School, fell through a skylght
at the rear of the house in trying to
escape the flames and is in the Episcopal
Hospital with cuts, bruises and possible
internal injuries.
\ sore foot. which kept Mr.. Weiner
from sleeping probably saved the
family from suffocatiOn. The father
thought h" ,mclled smoke, and. pulling
on his clothes. went to investigate
When he opened the hall door from the
bedroom on the second floor. where he
and Mrs. WCiner slept. rush of smoke
came in. 1t was thick in the hallway.
nhd when hc pressed through it to the
head ct the stars he round thnt the
entire lower hoor' occupied by him as
an ice cream store. was in flames.
Choking and coughing with the
smoke. he went back into the room and
aroused his wife. She called their two
younger children. Beatrice. six. and
David. tOuri"cH, whose rooms were on
the same floor.
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Mr' M'Inrr men made his way up
SSta'Is 'hrTIsh me SMOKE and awakened
nis m wv" o!u,r 'ni'dren' Anna, the girl
Mmo H WIS lHJn,'u, ana Mlhnic;, twenty
girls caught up the heaviest clothes th"y "y
could find in the rush of getting ont
and followed their father down TO the
second floor. The. mother franticallv
hhddi"d IN" younger children into their
cIoihIng to protect them from the cold
WIN no thought of herself. Though a
niddIr aged woman, she was but sean
my cIad when few minutes later they
were All forced to leave the building.
Nhhh De'alhc confused in the smoke
G'''lhg down from her room to the
second floor. In the confusion her
lathcr nid not know that she was miss
'llE' Ihr girl went To- the back in
stead Of to the front of tn" house aud
lr'"n To get ont a rear window opening
ON II shed with n Skylisht. In the
dnrEncsS and excitement sh" trippcd
ana fell through the Skylight TO the
moor beneath. Sh" was stunned. but
f'|nr"r"d in a moment aud dragged her.
sen 7" the street.
.M"anwhllc the father and mother.
win their eldest daughter and the two
Young children. had sought the front
room. Tho flames were roaring up the
,y"rn W"' 9" srI, ",r'u ~ ,nrn' ana ~" rooms
could breathe, rho onIy safc,y %','in ioy in
escape by the front Windows
N''
Tho fire engines had not yet arrived.
the fire having spread with unusual
rapidty. and the only way down was
by the awning poles at tho front of
The huilding. The father and mother
got out on the coping and edged them
selves down one of the cross poles 70
tho upright at the curb, Mr., Wcincr
Beatrice in his arms. David,
an active boy. managed tu get down
with little assistance.
Mrs. Wcincr first droppc3 down the
awning pole TO the ground. nr! hor hus-
band handed down th" ntt'n girl. the
mother catching her. Then the eldest
'aMghtcr ana the father followed.
lhc hr' spread so qul'kiH. tanned by
tho strong Wihd Whlch bIcW from the
lI"rt hr4St through moSt "i tho night,
that me engines could nor say" the
mouse ~ was Enrn'd "nt completely,
Win I'm loss .! @h,%s H'u,""'
ne meIher lailiyi Wer" 'aEGn IN by
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~, ,"h hN'"GGr. "t! WILL rru'iIln lh're un-
I" 'h'E "hu temporary nome
Whole NeighbOrhoOd Alarmed