Show DIED WITH HIS CHILDREN arkansas father burned to death while trying to save his babes fernendo fernando walters and his three children claudo aged 14 gertle gertie aged 12 and melvin meivin aged 10 were burned to death in the destruction of 0 their home fourteen a miles north of roge ark A brother of mrs walters a ged aged 15 was so seriously burned that bealh Is expected hour hourly the alre was started by a spark from an open fireplace replace fl the father mother and four cn children ildren slept downstairs upstairs were four boys walters got those downstairs out in safety and then rushed back to warn t tho he boys unknown to him gertie certie followed walters upstairs through the smoke and flames and went to a room where she kept her dolls the boys attempted to descend the stairs but the lames flames drove them back two jumped from the windows and were unhurt the last thing they heard board was melvin the youngest boy begging his father to jump first just then the root roof tell fell in killing walters melvln melvin claude and gertle gertie |