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Show (liy W. U. Telegraph.) WAS111SGTOX MANSARDS FEED. 1SU A IIKH. Washington, liT. This evening a a fire broke out in the basement of the house occupied by pay inspector J. N. Carpenter, in Michacler Row. Before the family were aware of their danger the fire had r 'ached the upper etoriea, and Mr. and Mrs, Carpenter with difficulty di-fficulty escaped to tho street, the latter ' screaming fer her child which was sleeping in the Mansard story of the buildingi On hearing her cry, William Wil-liam Digges ran through an adjoining houso and along tho cornice to the burning dwelling, broke in the window, win-dow, seized tho nearly suffocated child, oarried it out on tho roof of the next hnu, and delivered it to a colored man who restored the child to it - uiuiher. Tho inferior of tho houe was almo.-t entirely destroyed, the flimes spreadicig thence to the aouolo Munoard roof of tho residence of colonel Dona Piatt on the west aod dimagiog n to such an extent that it will have to be entirely removed. The library and n;o,t of the furniture were taved. TIkto waa no Insurance whatever nn the- rinu-e or contrnt?. The dames also extended to rho Man-Bard Man-Bard roots on the ea-t, damaging, more or less, eight or ten of them, |
