Show C1DRE1 L Oll N FIRE p Four Little Ones Cremated in Their Home i TWO OTHERS BADLY BURNED I t Father and Hired Man Also Severely I Severe-ly 1 Injured Mother Who It Is 1 I Y Feared Will Lose Her Reason From L the Terrible Shock and an Infant j Child Rescued F om FlamesAn t Awful Catastrophe at the Home of J a Dairyman Near San Joss Cal I 4 Caused by Explosion of Gasoline San Jose Cal Dec 22The residence resi-dence of Conrad Ruff located north of town was destroyed by fire this morning morn-ing Four young children perished In the flames two others together with Mr Ruff and a hired man were severely se-verely burned 1 DEAD I Carl aged 11 Barbara aged S Katy aged 10 1 Conrad Jr aged C E INJURED Mary Ruff aged 13 probably fatally 1 burned on head legs and abdomen 4 George Huff aged 11 badly burned about the feet head and hands will recover I Conrad Ruff the father head face i and arms burned f B Valdez slightly burned ORIGIN OF FIRE u Ruff conducts a dairy nQrth of town LJ At 3 oclock this morning he and the In the S hired man Valdez were milking barn the rest of the family being asleep in the house A gasoline stove t which had been left burning in the kitchen exploded and in an instant the t of flames J house was a seething mass Ruff and Valdez beat III the front In rescuing door with an ax and succeeded cuing Mrs Ruff and an infant child uninjured Thcv then rescued two or b the remaining sixchildren not 110W ovor until they vrse badly burned so llames spread Tho rapidly did the 4 other four were crushed by a falling i chimney and after the lire Jllthl JIg but their remains could be 1j i flattered bits of cl found t 1 Both Ruff and Valdez were badly cd burned It Jf i v feared Mrs Ruff will lose i her rcasjjm from the terrible shock |