Show EXPLOSION OF A NE STOVE I Two Dead Two Fatally and Thre Three Sever Severely ly Bu hed Heroic Effort of the Father to Save Sae His I t little Ones I II I n dead r two f burned d and three oth others others ers is the result of an of a ne early tOday at the home of Levi Lavi Titus a Kosher butcher No Wood rood alley Braddock Pa Harr Harry Titus V Meyer Titus twins F Fa tally d Mrs Sarah the mother ElsIe Titus aged Seriously Burned LevI Titus the father GoldIe Golde Titus aged 16 1 Ray Titus aged 16 The explosion was cauSed by the over overturnIng overturning turnIng of a gasoline stove on which Mrs Titus was preparing breakfast The burning fluid was over I the room Mrs Titus and I Igniting a five gallon can of oil stand standing ing on the the rear porch near the door A second explosion and In a afew afew few minutes the entire house was In I flames Neighbors made strenuous ef efforts efforts forts to reach the th fIve e children whO were left asleep on the floor but as the flames had already spread to the stairway nothing could be accomplished pushed until the arrival or of the fire firemen men with ladders The father was the first one to scale the ladder and enter the childrens room where smoke was vas issuing from the windows Feeling his way to the bed he grasped the twins carried them to the window He Hel l the to the fireman lR the ladder who found that they were both dead having haing been suffocated 1 Father Overcome I rhe he father then thell went back and res rescued rescued cued the other children and as he as assisted assisted the last one to the window he fell to the floor overcome by smoke He was taken out unconscious by the firemen who also rescued Mrs Titus after she had been terribly burned It Itis Itis is thought her Injuries will prove fatal the daughter was so badly burned that her recovery recover is doubtful The others although seri serl burned will recover The house and its contents were fiam aged to the extent of 2000 |