The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-12-27
THIRD CHILD
EXPECTED To
DIE Of BURNS
Tapped By Flames As One.
Story Home In Cherry Alley
Is Destroyed.
Screams Of Frantic Parent
Brings Rescue Party-3-
lear-Old Boy Saved.

A mother and two children ell co..
ored. trapped In their home. were
burned to death early this morning
and third child. a boy aged 3, fright.
fully burned about the head, tace. and
body. was rescued by Harry Doty.
neighbor, and taken TO the Rellaire
hospital. where he is expected to die.
The dead
MRS. WILLIAM ACkENS. IS
ARTHUR ACkENS. aged S years.
JUNIOR ACKENS. aged IN wears.
The blaze was discovered about
Is In the Ackens home at Twenty
nth street and Cherry Alley. Bell
aire. and BY time the fire department
reached the building the one story
structure was enveloped In flames.
A defective flue Is blamed Tor the
fire and Mrs Ackens and her three
children were alone In the house. her
husband William Ackeps. being en'
pluyed as miner iu Elm Grove.
Their Efforts Futile.
E.!ghhora hearing Mrs. Ackcns
e,reams attempted 10 break I'M" me
house. despite the tongues q flames
that dart.d from tire interior.
Their efforts we're futile unni pofY
app.sred and. dash,ng through III. front
door. he saw m. mother clasping the
thre..year-old youngster 10 her bosom
Hs crept on the hoor TO escape the
fumes, and on reaching the mother :
side took m. child and struggled back
through the door. where eager hands
r.hsved him Of the boy and the child
was SAINT 70 the hospital ~ once.
Driven Back ny Flames.
Ju,t before the fire department ar
rived. virgin I. Howell and John Nc.
Guirs went INTO the burning house
through rear window. They tried 70
torce their way in the sleeping room.
where neighhors told them tho 'Wo
boys were ASLEEP. but the flames drove
them back.
They srored th.ir way through the
snok. and IA .hlled roow ~ Mrs.
Ark.ns and dragged her from the build
Ing.
Sh. va. dead. and T. IA believed that
III. flames she inhaled. not th. burns
about her hodv oaused death
AS the nr.nsn 'vrn.d their hog -
Ire 1pls 81 IN. hnLse they c4v.d IN
uard. ard I, vas not until the flame :
had been wholly rut out that horribly
burned bodies II tn. two BOYS coull
be r.no~ed They had literally be.n
crsmate1
Before ThA Fire.
Mrs AckAns ard her sons vent &c
h.d early last night after they had
banked the coal fire IN the stove which
uas IN a corner With tiles protesting
III. walls from the hest
Shortlr after one this rcrrrrs 40
m.r living nearby noticed flames and
aroused th- neighhorhccd
Built Of WOOD,
In few minutes the street. Uas fllc'I
WITH men ard women u-ho sought -
alouse this inm7tas b" pounding on th-
Gocrs
Bull IF nd and the flames srrea!
through the hnu.e "a ~ ~ were tinder
and before al" concerted effort could +.
crgsni1ed :" rescue Mrs AsL.ns and
her children the tlau-s TerA dartins
from the doors and wIriows
From m. position ot Mrs Ackers :,
Is believed that awakened hv the smokr
she tried 20 escape frcm tn. huildinl
With her TounEcst son and was able tc
reach the door before she was o,ercom.
and fell unconscious shielding her sor
against her hreas'
From The position 81 her bcdv u ,as
evident that she had tucked tho rhllJ' .
body under her arms II d last endeaynr
to save him
Hesouers Brave.
While knots Of msn essaved 10 sna sh
their way into the house. It Is now he.
lle,ed that Mrs Ackens was living on
tbs f"!r and that she possibly heard
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