Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-07
Two More Die
After Fire in
Rest Home
Toll Reaches Six;
County Urged to
Require Sprinklers

fire at Germantown. Nd, yester-
day died today. bringing the toll
of victims to six.
Miss Anne Lamborn. 81, o Dis
trict school teacher for 90 years.
and DR.. Elizabeth HampSor. 81,
also a patient at the rest home,
died today.
Miss Lamborn died at Wash.
ington Sanitarium at about 8
am. An autopsy was ordered.
DR.. Hampson died at $3.50 am.
at Suburban Hospital. Oficials
said she was a victim of expo
sure to smoke fumes.
Miss Lamborn and DR.. Hamp-
son were among II patients res
cued as flames swept through the
frame rest home before dawn
yesterday.
County Fire Marshal Charles
L. Howe. jr.. said an automatic
sprinkler system would have
prevented, cor at least reduced
the death TOLL" at the Mary
lander by combining the FIRE to
one room.
will Urge Legislation.
He recommended to the County
Council today that legislation
requiring sprinkler systems IN
all county rest homes be en-
acted. His proposal was taken
under adyisement.
Mr.. Howe said he made the re-
quest for sprinklers to the Coun-
Gil following a fire that cost
three lives September 18. 1851,
at Mrs. Jolliffe's Home for Ell
derly Persons at ColesNlle. but
that the Council failed to adopt
the recommendation.
Mr.. Howe, who investigated
yesterdays fire with county
building inspection officials and
State and county health authors
ties, said a gas heater, used to
supplement the hot-water heat
ing system in a glassed-in solari-
UNI at the Marylander. was
practically ruled out" as q
cause of the fire after a check
yesterday.
The Marylander had con-
tracted for o sprinkler system
to be installed within the next
few months. according to Mrs.
LeWana Dickinson. its owner.
Two other homes are to have
sprinklers installed soon, accord
ing to Mr.. ; Howe.
Those who died In the ire
were:
Miss Mathilda Koehler, 81. Q
retired Government Printing Of
flee employee.
Mrs. Dora Ward. IS. a life
long resident of the Rockville
area.
Mrs. Sallie Turpin. SO. Q
| washington natlVe.
Mrs. Yates Davis Duke, "a. o
retired nurse and member Of an
old Brandywine (Md.) family.
The fire caused damages esti.
mated at about $1,000.
Admitted to Hospital.
Admitted to Washington Sani-
tarium were Mrs. Carrie Smith,
81; Mrs. Elizabeth Buckham, So;
Mrs. Fannie WHEREBY, IS;
Miss Annie E. Meyer, SO:
Mrs. Kate Hubbard, 81: Mrs.
Helen Richards, 80; Mrs. Edith
Brozen, IS; Mrs. Clara Mohler.
SO; Mrs. Katherine Derosa, IS;
Mrs. Irene Slavin, IS: Albert j.
Wade, II; Capt. Charles B.
Ellis, 70, U. S. ~. retired Navy
chaplain; Miss Annie McPhee
and Miss Elsie Snyder.
Admitted to Suburban Hospital
were Mrs. Fila Billmeyer, SO. and
John Delaplane, 70.
Lived With Sister.
| Before going to the home
about two years ago, Miss LAM
born lived with a sister, Mrs.
Emory M. Wilson. at 2915 Con-
necticut avenue NV. The late
Mr.. Wilson was a principal at
the old Central High School.
Miss Lamborn retired about
10 years ago from Stuart Junior
High School.
She was a member Of the
Twentieth Century Club and the
First Congregational Church.
| Among the survivors, beside
Mrs. Wilson, is another sister.
Mrs. Arthur C. Willard Of Ur-
bana, ILL.,, wife of the president
emeritus of the University Of
Illinois.
Howard Graduate.
DR.. Hampson, a general prac-
toner, graduated from Howard
University in 1899 and was IL
censed in the District in Novem-
Der Of that year. She practiced
medicine in Pittsburgh in 1900
and followed that with six years
Of practice in Chicago. She also
| practiced in Charleston. w. Va,
in the early 1920s.
She was a former member Of
the District Medical Society.
| DR.. Hampsof lived in the To.
ronto Apartments at Twentieth
and P streets NV. until about
a year ago. She was In a rest
home In Rockville, Md. until
last summer. She moved to the
Marylander last October.
| She is survived by one son,
Charles M. Hampson Of Oak
| mont, Pa. and q daughter. Mrs.
Jane Mcmillan Of New York
| City.
| The funeral arrangements for
four who died at the nursing
home were as follows:
Mrs. Duke. II am. tomorrow
in st. Paul's Episcopal Church
in Baden, Md, near Brandywine;
Miss Keohler, IL am. tomorrow
| in the Robert A. Humphrey fu-
neral home, 1857 Wisconsin ave.
nue.. Bethesda: Mrs. Ward, $50