Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-21 | Page 1 | Little Ones [Illegible] in Flames

'f UTILE llT 1MFIAIS ttjjks Left Children Alone at fitjlnc While They Went vl' to Theater. Ik mCAUGHT FIRE TN LTNKX0WX MANNER l4lth and Eldest Child Made f'oiclnit Futile Attempt at Rescue. r-5L.uUSE, Wash., Aug. 20. Six chil-"Serishcd chil-"Serishcd and ono other was fatally SSrin a fire which destroyed the $jtot H. W. Shullz near this plnce get night. Of tiio sis dead, four ElQ children of Mr. and Mrs. W. 6of "Walla Walla, raupinjr froiii Jisrs to six month1;, and two were jff8cliulf7. family. :i bny oC six J dlgrad n girl of scvou mont hs. Rosy jCa cirl of eleven, v.-:is futally 'tjRTix. a sister-in-law of Mr. E-'with her four children was j'iW'tlie Schultz home, and early in Busu to attend the theater, lenviiiji jildrcn alone at home. Jtj Caught While Asleep. tV'ijgr- tho children had cone to hed Hduso from somo unknown cause lais'firo, an( 1,a ina(e eousiJerablc aSfi "before tho children Ycrc .Wjtecd. 2gS..-lho oldest Schultr. child, said Sjihen Bhe became eouseious her bed MlbJpVfire and the flamc3 Jiad reached ht'a6lder children made a desperato Wijfto save. Ihc wnallcr-ones. Koso lie Mb- had the. others saturate her PC with water, and she then ran WiB hurninc building to rescur the af& n l'fi hproie but nnavailiui; 'jtajio sustained hums ivlneh v. ill, i taSithoupht, result; in her death. ht itcrinn from her bums. .Rose, ran ;4S,&i milo aeross a field to a ncitzh-t ncitzh-t tlhoitso for assistance, but by tho ftwjMe arrived there the Schultr 'home nSoii consumed and the children IJfcad. The mothers, who returned fwfwhe theater au hour later, are SB1 b the pl,oc,c' jjprathers of the children had left tiifMio day before with a threshing