Show LIVES SAVED I IBY BY WARNING I Of HOUSE CAT Animal Awakens Inmates of Burning House in Time to Permit Escape V OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE UNDOUBTEDLY PERISHED o MOTHER SUCCEEDS IN AROUS AROUSING AROUSING AROUSING ING CHILDREN AND GETTING THEM OUT OF BUILDING I i A house cit cat yve ived l five members of Philip Kopp family from suffocating to death in the smoke from a It fire IB hi the theold theold theold old Sam Regal house houst at 3 West Fifth S South lied it not be been n for Cor the cat eat the house would have burned d and the Koppe would w uld have havo perished The fire started in the roar of ot the house hOUfe The cause is not known All iI 11 of ot the rooms quickly filled with smoke Into the room in which Mrs MN Kopp Jopp slept the hou house houM e cat had crept some time during the evening and her presence there wire not noticed when then Mrs Irs Kopp retired The choking smoke pouring into the chamber caused great gr t distress to the animal It leaped looped upon the bed and clawed frantically at atthe atthe the covering in search of some place to tor escape the fumes Awakened in Time Timers r i Mrs rs Kopp was wag awakened by b the claw clawing clawIng clawIng ing of the animal Faint and choked with th smoke she groped her way from the bed and awakened her husband She then aroused her two daughters Freda and I Augusta Auguata and her son Frederick Although she he was almost almo t fainting with wit weakness fear feRr for the safety of ot her chil children children dren buoyed the mother until all th the members of the family were safely from the house She was then carried to the home of or Mrs Price at 15 W West st Fifth South street The Kopps escaped from the burning dwelling with scanty apparel and MM Mrs Kopp left a large Iare sum of money mone In her herbe bedroom be room forgetting her in her he ht anxiety to sane sa e her son and daughters daugh daughters daughters Alarm Is Given When young Frederick Kopp was g w wal ened he leaped from lite hk hI bed and thrust thrusting thrusting thrustIng ing his head from a II window for foi help helpA S SA A young man in a neighboring house hausa h U heard the call and discharged six sue hots In the air from a hoping to attract at attract attract tract attention His forts efforts were not unavailing un Lpuis S Humbert Price son df of of Mrs Price who occupies the adjoining dwelling heard hear S the reports of tire the pistol Not knowing what waa was amiss s he be sot got up from rom be bed l land and called up police pollee headquarters hR ex explaining that the shots shirts Indicated that there wits was trouble In the tie neighborhood He then went outside and aM finding that the Kop Kopp house louse was wag afire anre returned to the telephone and St in an alarm to the tire fire department v About this time K E A Holt Roll of ot Sooth South Main street was w pausing passing He saw sew the thi blaze in the house and aud ws 8 harrying hUrrying to notify the fire department when he learned that an alarm had already been sent in by b young oung Prie Priel Guard the Premises Mrs Irs Kopp suffering from tte UW t shock hock of f the mornings excitement and ana a chilled from exposure in n the th night air was tak rak taken taken rakin en in for the night to the of or pro Dr Theo Thee Theodore ThiOdore dore lore Meyer at 53 3 South Main Mair street As It was known that a R large sum of mone money had b d been left In jn the he the house Ser Sergeant r geant H r d d two policemen to guard the premises until Mr Kopp re returned returned turned from Dr Meyers house The firemen had great difficulty fight fighting fighting fighting ing the blaze owing to the stilling stifling smoke S which filled filed ever room It was a hard banI task for the firefighters to get set their line of ci hose to the seat of the th flames hut after an hours struggle all danger of the destruction of if the thi house e was passed The building was ail a double frame The Th rooms on the eastside were gutted by b the tie flames flame and nd the damage is estimated between 1500 and 2000 |