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Show I j ! plEO AMID FLAMES h I : f H I "j Three-Ver-OId Joseph Geoghega.n Stifled iri Burning Home. I i - a 1 jxTLK Jokci'Ii Geoghegan, the 3- J f vear-oid of JFrh Geoghegan m j lv ,,f iV.' Third strtet. perished in a J ,hat nearly destroyed his father's J r-e Wednesday. It is known that r ,;,,,. fellow accidentally set the I ani1 il is b?3ieve tbat, I jrighton"'! at his act. the child hid him- j,, ;-.;-.. a i 11 in the rarlor and S .jffnair,l. while vain c-fforts were I r, nlH,io rescue him from the " I i.urnlng- building. !j,v nre ao-ident. the little fellow's l,d'v "a I"1"1'1 before the (lames ffaehed hi'11- 1,111 death had claimed its vif,;jm. ll.i'l the whereabouts of the hiid h-"P rn-c.vn a feu minutes be-i'nrp be-i'nrp ho mid" have easily ben saved. ' ,rK i;..ghegan. six other little i ,h'ri.n and two servant girls had nar-I nar-I Vs'-ai"" frn injury in the fire, j J Yhpy :' f"M"d to run down a burn-;:: burn-;:: 'ytairw ay to avoid being oremat-vivn oremat-vivn litt!" Joe was found to be II p.ccjnc. !! mother, frantic with grief. I jln'pinre.l tl."H'- who had been attracted t', the rcn t" lind her child. . Bravery of a Servant. Marriai! H".vK one of the servants, at- t mp;''il : into tlf building through I ; 8 glass window in search of the boy. t i ijf,,' had -to be restrained by several . n,.)i. Th" girl cut herself badly break- ,jrf: ihrout-ii 'h glass. Jack West, at i risk of his own life, rescued the tiv ,if the . hild and, almost over- r,m'p by Miioke, staggered into the var.l with it. '.Mr. C'-ecbrgan was at the Alta club L PiiiiTtaining some visitors at the time l 0f the lire, and the escape of the other Members f the family was almost mi- i F S -aruii'iis. The house and contents! ) i mi', almost a total loss, considerable I damage from tire and water was sus-l sus-l I taiii'ii by I'isher Harris, who lives in 1 the adjoining residence. ' Tin' tire started a little after 6 o'clock, r j About fifteen minutes to that hour Mr. j ooghecan bade his family goo.l-by I a:id teok the car for the Alta club, irtfty. he was to give a dinner to John Y. Finerty and James Devlin, the ; distinguished dis-tinguished Irish visitors. He had f.arfpj.v gotten to the club when a telephone message notified him that his Kdf was burning. He rushed back immediately, but he was too late. His M child had perished. Vas Playing "With Matches. .Vve-rdmg to the story told by Katha-lin?, Katha-lin?, niie ot his little sisters, Joe start- j (d the lire that cost him his life. He ap 'laying with matches in' a closet i;nder the hall stairway. She said she I, hint strike a match, and then she vwit upstairs, where her mother and the ether children were. A few mo-ments mo-ments later the smell of smoke was r nnti.el. Then the-crackling of flames in the hall were heard. The nurse. Marian Boyle, glanced L il'wn the stairs and seeing the hall in fams sounded the alarm. Mrs. Geoshe-San Geoshe-San was attending to her baby and the children were playing about her. 'i;;?l-ing her babe to her bosom and crying to the servants to bring, the children, she started out. The stairs were already in flames and smoke was ; toiling up into the second story. With the frightened and crying children flinging to their skirts, Mrs. Geoghe-?ui Geoghe-?ui and the two servants rushed j through the smoke and flame down the fUiirs. minded and almost suffocated tith smoke, they staggered out the f-or.t deor into the yard. in the meantime the fire had been iHioverert by some boys playing' in the : rrert. They raised an alarm and li ighbors came rushing to the house i '-T''m every direction. A glance at the trying children who had gathered sh ut her was enough to tell the mother that imp was missing. Flames were touting from every portion of the Hif and the conviction that he must in there almost drove her frantic. Search For Little Joe. i- ""h'-re jc joe?" she cried. "Some ; I cue find Joe." I i'iif- in- n who stood about and neard II Ur- agonized appeal thought she re-? re-? t-rred to )K.r husband. Thev did not I oam that a :i-year-old child was in 1: 'hat eauldron of smoke and flame. I Marian Hoyie. realizing what the cry her mistress meant, dashed towards window, shouting something about a It :, t::ai those about her did not un-I un-I ii"Hnd. With her bare fist she wiaj-he, ,hr jr-ass. cutting a long and 1 "pl' cash in her right wrist. Giving no I 'r"d 'he stream of blood and the . 'mes inside, she began to scramble I "'int.. the window. N vrvai it en j;aw danger the i,rHVP pir! and .iraod her i 'nr . h" struggled with them and i ,Va'"'J '" allowed to go in search l ' ,!l6 ebiid. she was epiickly taken I. f.."v l,lJ her words had been under- j 'In a moment Ja.-k West. Will Kay t- Peering had disappeared I door. Jtepardless of the 7r'-'lVT '"iit a,,d s,iI,ing smoke, Ihev ' ' 'I through every room they could h,Vn;"-, X"' H traf,(? r'f the child could eui,1(. iiidjoving that he must have , ? ,M en lost in the excite- , v'-"'!'"y "ln,'', their attention to s":! f the furniture. Finding of the Body. Usn.r ii,: thr parlor they attcmpt-,, attcmpt-,, "' "' 'he piano out. West's foot j,, ;'ning soft on the' floor as VinkV ' ' ':i' U "r tho i'"5' rumen t. The ,.'.'. '.." !;M thick to see through. t -!'" 'lands he felt the form of '': !: ,isi'ig him in his arms he j d-.n,"" '': ;!,,""ch the smoke to the! h!n',S.! j Hl,1ost overcome,' but he' h" ,;" s,;,Kger to the mother with : tii(. , A glance showed that 8;.,,, '"'."; -"1 not lieen burned, and the a.- s'i. ' ;,: '-:, ty was greatly relieved - y.ouaht the little one was alive, t.,' r;.' '; '" K- King and E. F. Root v"-k-T i ,i!'1''nr"i immediately. Thev " ''V''l! ''tt!e fellow for some r-y;,-', .';'' u r',v unable to restore his rivli ;in" V1r- Geojrhegan had ar-i ar-i ;isV' ''j ' '!'"'!'""-s' v,,i bim bis 'boy r! 'he r ' vna' k almost prosirat-j prosirat-j ir, ,,,.s, ' ' Hnd Mrs. (Jeophegan was T1,r' 'e,r . of the child. TV f7,, " ,h" h" '' " a neighbor., lie,,',,- j'1'"11'1 r.oi b, pulled away e.,-.-,, The . whev had to be ' 0. i"a..L':;'', hou, ( Professor A.) t:'vH! . ,." ''nieiien and the injured Hf !-,' : " ,;1ken to another house, tn In- ( "ir' 's w und was attended physician. . Delay in Sending in Alarm. "a;ar'','ritt'm,''nt att' ,dinS the fire, B"'nt ii'iii' S n'" stJnt in to t,,e fpart--rf- di's, ,!. S""V timo afte'' the flames "sr".nrV,i'ir" TIle ,,fn" frm o. 4 f'-"" n.. in '3lfl not arrive on the hn r,'; ; ",f hi,d-s bc,iy had J-d ,,V(., '' u that time the flames rj:'"iii to t' ' ,hr' ,vno, bouse from !"'i h i.i " from the neighbor- t""1 vilv.'VU'"f"ie( in HyinS some ni tiie i , r" and a little furniture tes,' xvter to check the i" "h.-iko ii ,!ames the heat became uildins ('u'd not get near the r'om ,''neues of flaiT!e "Te leaP" """totv,. . ,roof of the t3eoghegan V- had v, ,'r -Ir' Hrris- and already . iizinK tb ln tile shingles there. rv'd fro,,, . ntbing more could be iUrnf:'l the - l?r firpt Place, the men Ut f the i,atUl"Uo to getting things "dins home. Quantities of furniture, Fih-er.,- ufle, re11 out"" lh?r Val" a f-m the burning buifdTn ' e tUlned u'K,n tlie root of thP H.rr- i he names on the but much dlil h0m were soon out-tts out-tts ,he wafer8 l the -Fierce Battle With Flames. fierSvnf !f "rhIne burned re flames for tu-n t f"len IOUKht the oKuirbrth: S, ?h5CiUln?d by WatPr' loss $ 00 Th! 15 estimatd at about the ammmt 'r c0"red b' insurance. "e amount of which Mr. Geoch-an as unable to state last night 5 i he loss sustained bv Mr Harr' : Seratelff tllo.""; anrt Af fr. the flre a sealskin coat dn,nt,7ra4'uhundred dollars' worth of cared 1 v." hat had in Bome way es-Geolhlhe es-Geolhlhe "umeS were saved fr e c.eoghegan home by one of the fire- ,hi?ftph, ShPan is sales agent for membet efar !'01"Pany and is -member of the city board of education. vwme the firemen were fighting the flames on the second floor thev encountered en-countered some electric wires which had been uncovered by the flames. ,-hlef .Mevne- ''aptain Ayland and iijiectrician Sorensen were hurled to the floor, but were not badly injured. On account of the wires being down an over the house, the men had to L . very cautiously, as there was sufficient power in them to electrocute snould they come in contact with them for any length of time. |
