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Show A SAD AFFAIR. A Heroine Saves Two liahies from a Burning Building. She Returns, Presumably for A'aluables, and Sacrifices Itef Xoble Life in the Flames. Maxitou SpriXg, Colo., June 29. Lizzie Allen, a servant, was burned to death, and the two-story building, curi) store and residence of Charles Pollen, Were burned to the ground tonight to-night at 9:25. Mrs. Pollen put her two children, fteed 3 and 7 years respectively, to bed, locked tlie house and went down town to tee curio store run by her sister-in-law. She had just arrived when a horseman galloped wildly down the street shouting that her home was on fire. With a wild cry of "my babies," the distracted woman started up the street, but could go no farther than the curio store of Mrs. Griffin, three blacks away. Here she sank moaning to the ground, and was carried into the store. Men broke into the house and commenced carrying out the valuables, when Lizzie Allen rushed in and up stairs, crying that there Mere children there. She picked them up and carried them safely out of the burning building, and then went back, presumably after her valuables. valu-ables. No one saw her return and supposed sup-posed that everyone was out of the building. The flames spread rapidly over the wooden structure, and all efforts to save auything being useless, the firemen devoted de-voted their attention to saving the sur-i-nnndino- l!iil(linc?s and throwinsr water on the burning building. In the meantime mean-time Mrs. Pollen's condition was becoming be-coming aiai'ming, several friends being necessary to hold the poor woman, who was crazed with tlie idea that her children chil-dren were burning up. When the children Were brought to her she swooned away. At this hour, although removed to the privacy of a friend's home, she is in a serious condition. After neai lv every one had left the scene of the lire and the embers were dying away, Mr. William Frizzier made his way through the debris and was bonified to see a bone surrounded by burned flesh, protruding from underneath under-neath the fallen roof. Help was soon at hand and the multiiated body of Lizzie Allen was found, both lower limbs being burned off near the knee, and the body and one side of the face a mass of c oked flesh. An express wagon was summoned and the remains of the unfortunate woman conveyed to the city hall. The coroner was at once summoned. The supposition is that she stumbled and fell, and became suffocated. The origin of the fire is not known, but supposed to have been caused by the explosion of a lamp. There was no other lire in the building. Mr. Pollen is the Denver & Rio Grande agent at Manitou, and he and his wife are most estimable people. He was almost crazed by the events of the evening. Miss Allen was 23 years of age and a niece of Edward Frost, water commissioner of Colorado Springs. V. . .... ... . . ' |