Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-08-16 | Page 13 | Young Hero and Fire Scene

Young Hero and Fire Scene 3 1 t 1 y d. d F 1 J y 4 c 4 1 4 A t 4 I Two S. S L. L Children Burned in Blaze Brother Rescues Youngsters Tr Trapped in inFlaming inFlaming inFlaming Flaming Box Pair Fight for Life Horribly burned a year old girl and her year old brother were I In in lii poor condition Tuesday at Salt Lake General hospital after being trapped in a flaming box In the rear of their apartment house home Monday evening They are Ramona 9 and Rodney Rodney Rodney Rod Rod- ney Hackwell 7 1 children of Mr Ir and Mrs lUrs Lester B. B Hackwell West Second South street They are suffering from first second and third degree burns bums on their heads faces chests arms and hands Fire department reports said the I children were playing in a large box partly filled with excelsior Inthe in inthe inthe I i the rear of their apartment house abo about abott t p. p m. m Monday Albert Hackwell 13 playing near nearby nearby nearby by saw a a. sheet of flame shoot from the box and ran to the aid eld of his brother and sister r already screamIng screaming screaming scream scream- ing with pain and dragged them from the box Albert said the lid of the box was locked when the children crawled in through a hole in the side They were unable to get out I i I through t the e top and Robert had to drag draR them through the hole Ramona dress aflame ran up two flights of stairs to the Hackwell Hackwell hackwell Hack- Hack well apartment Mrs 1 Hackwell wrapped a blanket around the child in an attempt to smother the flames and Mr l Hackwell drove his automobile from the garage garage garage ga ga- ga- ga rage in the rear yard to prepare for the quick trip to the hospital With the victims being taken to aid neighbors saw smoke pouring from a wooden stairway of ot the apartment house and called the fire department three companies under direction of Battalion Chief Lloyd B. B Egan responding In a formal report Fire Chief Walter S. S Knight said the children had been playing with matches Their father denied this however however how how- ever and said the match makh must have han been thrown from the house into the box Chief Egan said the fire had spread from the box to the stairway stairway stairway stair stair- way on the ground floor and flames had started to eat their way up the steps Damage to the building w was estimated at 75 and at 5 to con con- tents tent S' S 1 14 1 1 A i 0 1 4 p 1 4 s 14 4 WHERE TWO CHILDREN WERE CAUGHT IN FREAK FIRE Top Albert who saved brother an and d sister looks at lock that was burned off ocr bottom Albert stands in box in which children were trapped