Show I XMAS TREE FIRE FATAL TO BABY Elmo Ehno Yearsley Aged 2 2 Dies From Burns Received New Ne NeY Y Years Year's Eve Ills His life unwittingly offered up on a I flaming pyre of ot Christmas tree treo delights year old Elmo Bimo died yesterday yester estor day of or burns he ho received New cw Years Year's eve The Tho death of the little boy after atter hours of Intense sur suffering erinI- erinI brought tragedy as ai tho the family's portion on the first da day of ot 1918 1018 With his two brothers George aged 7 and Howard aged ed 9 the child was playing about a Christmas tree New Years Year's eve at ot the homo home of or the gran grani- grani I- I parent parents Mr tIr and Mrs Pehrson Pehr- Pehr son K g Second South street As As a special concession to tho the occasion the tree was vas bathed in the bright light o of ofa ofa a score of ot colored candles At an in- in moment when the mother was out of ot the room tho the tree then nearly approaching the dryness oC or tin tin- ller caught fire In a moment it was as a burning torch menacing the home and its merry making occupants The childrens children's mother Mrs tIrs Zenopheon on t 3 W. W Fifth Firth South street had gone gamma Into another room The grandmother Mrs Willard Pehrson crippled with rheumatism was unable to r reach ch the b baby b who ho had hail crawled beneath the tree apparently attracted by the bright ht lights The grandmother er cried for tor help and antl Mrs Pehrson seeing the flames flame ran outside for aid She believed all th the children had been brou brought ht from the room Philo Lund 17 N. N West est Temple street and Lloyd Llod Sloan 8 8 7 Medium apartments were attracted b by the tho moth mothers mother's rs r's screams and rushed into tho house The They helped tho the grandmother and two older children from the thc house and Into the home homo of ot a nel neighbor An unknown man brought blought bab baby Elmo from front the blazing room but only after alter he had received the tho burns that proved fatal tatal |