Evening star., 1941-04-26
Barefoot Girl, a.,
Climbs Rainspout
To Rescue Baby
Passes Boy, 2K, From
Mothers Arms to
War Veteran Below

A pajama-clad, barefooted girl
of IA climbed a rainspout to a ledge
below a second-story window last
night to rescue 212-year-old boy
from a burning building att 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
Inscoe, whose mother, Mrs. Irene
Inscoe, 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, a 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, were 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 fed or were rescued
were Bobby Hensley, 7; Ronald
Hensley, S; Evelyn Hensley, 9: John
Rowe, 8, and Betty Inscoe, 10, all
grandchildren of Mrs. Hensley, at
whose home the fire occurred; Mrs
Viola Booher, 16, daughter; Will
liam Hensley, son, and Miss Doris
Stickley, a guest.
A 5-year-old infant son of Mrs
Inscoe, Donald, was brought from
the smoke-filled 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 il
on the way to the kitchen to get g
drink of water and that she stooc
there and screamed until Mr.. Inscoe
started down the steps with the baby
in his arms. Then she ran up Il
meet him and carried the infant Il
the back yard.
After helping Angelina Daras ir
the rescue of Bobby Inscoe, Mr.
Woolfe, 44-year-old father of five
children and a member of the Los
Battalion during the World War
climbed upon a ledge himself ant
aided in saving Mrs Inscoe. witt
was taken down on the ladder of ;
fire company that had come up il
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 cigarett
dropped into an overstuffed chail
according to police, caused damag
to a rooming house operated by Mrs
Cline Felter at 1014 Eleventh stree
NV. early this morning. The blaz
was confined to two lower rooms
Four persons, including Mrs. Feltel
fed from the building before fire
men arrived.