Evening star., 1941-04-26
Barefoot Girl
Climbs Spout,
Rescues Baby
- Passes Boy, ~, From
Mothers Arms to
War Veteran Below

A pajama clad, barefooted girl
of IA climbed rainspout to ledge
below a second-story window last
night to rescue a 212-year-old boy
from a burning building at 805 F
street S.W., from which IL other
persons, including six children,
either fled or were carried to safety,
two of them after they had been
burned about the face.
The story of the rescue was told
by relatives and neighbors who saw
the girl, Angelina Daras, run out
of her home next door and scale the
building to reach the child, Bobby
1nscoe, whose mother, Mrs. Irene
1nscoe, was holding him from a
window.
The girl said she discovered on
reaching the ledge and taking the
child into her arms that she was
unable to climb back down the
spout, so she passed the boy down
to another neighbor, Irving E.
Woolfe, World War veteran and
holder of the Distinguished Service
Cross, who had rushed to the rescue
Immediately behind her.
Mother Burned on Face.
Mrs. InScoe and her mother, Mrs,
Rose Hensley, we're burned about
the face, while the father of the
child, Norris Inscoe, received lacer-
ations to the hand in attempting
to put out the blaze. The fire caught,
they said, from an oil stove in the
dining room on the first floor of the
three-Story building. They were re-
leased after treatment at Emerg-
ency Hospital.
Others who fled or were rescued
were Bobby Hensley. 7; Ronald
Hensley, 5; Evelyn Hensley, 9; John
Rowe, 8, and Betty Inscoe, 10, all
grandchildren of Mrs. Hensley, at
whose home the fire occurred; Mrs.
Viola Bcoher, Is, daughter; Will
liam Hensley, son, and Miss Doris
Stickley, guest.
A 5-year-old infant son CT Mrs.
1nscoe, Donald, was brought from
the smoke-f1lled building by Mrs.
Booher after she had rushed partly
up the stairway to the second floor
to take it from the arms of the
father, police reported. Mr. Inscoe,
they said, then made an unsuccessful
attempt to eXtinguish the blaze.
Screams Awaken Household.
The fire was discovered by Mrs.
Booher. Her screams awakened
other members of the household,
as well as families living next door.
Mrs. Booher said the dining room
was ablaze when she walked into it
on the way to the kitchen to get
drink of water and that she stood
there and screamed until Mr.. InScoe
started down the steps with the baby
in his arms. Then she ran up to
meet him and carried the infant to
the back yard.
After helping Angelina Daras in
the rescue of Bobby Inscoe, Mr
Woolfe, 44-year-old father of five
children and a member of the Lost
Battalion during the World War,
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aided in saving Mrs. Inscoe, who
was taken down on the ladder of a
fire company that had come up in
the meantime. Others, including
Williams Hensley and Miss Stickley,
who were asleep on the third floor,
were saved by firemen at this time.
A fire caused by lighted cigarette
dropped into an overstuffed chair,
according to police, caused damage
to a rooming house operated by Mrs.
Cline Felter at 1914 Eleventh street
NV. early this morning The blaze
was confined to two lower rooms.
Four persons, including Mrs. Felter,
fled from the building before fire.
men arrived.