Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-03
Physical Condition Believed
to Have Barred Escape
of Semi-InvaIid.
BABY SAVED BY TOSS
TO ADJOINING BUILDING
Mrs. Fisher, 80 Years Old, Rescued.
Chaplin St. Structure Wrecked,
Another Damaged by Flames.

One woman was burned to death and
200 persons. many in their night cloth
ing, forced to fee to safety when IRE
early today wrecked the Denver Apart
ments, a five-Story structure, at 1919
Chaplin street Smoke filled the Hill
side Apartments, next door, and It's oc-
cupants fed to the street.
The dead woman is Miss Jessie Cam
mack, 10 years old, semi-invalid. par
TALLY blind, who occupied an apart
ment on the fourth floor. Her body
was found burned after a check had
showed her unaccounted for. Her win
dow was not more than few feet from
a fire escape and 1t is believed that but
for her physical condition she could
easily have escaped. Mrs. r. B. Cole,
who lived across the hall from Miss
Cammack, said neighbors were pre-
vented from getting to Miss Cammacks
door because flames and smoke filed
the hall.
Miss Cammack was q niece Of Mrs.
Joseph r. Quinter or 1860 Perry place
and first cousin Of William s. Quinter.
1928 Twenty-seventh street. president
Of the District Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION.
Baby Tossed Across Areaway.
A 13-month-old baby, Alfred Castle,
jr.. and his mother we're saved from
the flames and smoke, when Mrs. Castle
tossed the child from the third-story
window of the building across an open
space, to Tudor w. Mask, standing on
the roof Of his home, at 1921 Chaplin
street. Mr.. Mask caught the baby,
who was unframed, and Mrs. Castle
then leaped to safety across the 1O-foot
space to the roof Of the adjoining build
ing.
Woman, 80, Carried to Safety.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Fisher, 90 years
old, who occupied an apartment on the
second floor of the structure, was car
ried to the fire escape by Earl Carson,
the owner of the building, and down the
fire escape by r. Il Fucker. an occu-
pant of the third foos. Mrs Fishers
daughters, Miss Grace Lee Fisher and
Miss Mary e. Fisher sAnd Mrs. e. T.
Brancebury, who has been nursing Mrs
Fisher since she broke her hip six weeks
ago, also escaped. Mrs. Fisher was
taken to the home of friends, ct 1434
Chaplin street.
Acting Fire Marshal C. G. Achstet-
ter this afternoon said the damage
done to the building proper, the Dam
yer Apartments, amounted to APPROX
imately $4,000, exclusive of furniture
and personal property.
The acting fire marshal declared he
believed the fire started In some crates,
which had been used to pack electric
refrigerators, moved into the apart
ments.
AS the flames mounted and four FIRE
alarms in close succession brought q
mass of apparatus to the scene, the
screams of awakening apartment dwell
ers, who found their way to safety cut
off by the smoke and flames, added to
the confusion. Meanwhile hundreds Of
residents of other apartment houses In
the vicinity, awakened by the shouts
and reflection of the flames on their
windows, poured into the streets and
around the fire engines. The police
reserves from the eighth and tenth pre-
cincts cleared the streets
Mr.. Carson said he thought
the fire started in the basement
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