| Show PET CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S PETS SAVE liVES BY RAISING AlARM Fireman Rescues Bulldog Puppy but Heroic Cat I Perishes in Flames Babe Thrown From Window EXITS CLOSED BY FIRE IN HALLWAY Woman Dr Dropped From Sec Sec-I Second Second Sec Sec- ond Story Alights O on j Electric Wires Several I Narrow Escapes Made iI I i Prince Prince a a. pet bulldog puppy and and I Tom a a. plain ordinary cat best de described do- do I e-I scribed as the alley variety a Iet were were twin heroes at a fire at the Embleton apartment apartments apart apart- ments ment menti East Fifth South street at an early hour this morning In in which nine families out of ten living in the building building- were almost helplessly trapped by the flames All but three families were rescued from the second second sec see sec ond story windows by their neighbors who lived on the ground floor or by bythe bythe bythe the firemen of companies No Nos Nog 1 and 5 who responded to the alarm One woman woman saved her b baby by by tossIng tossing toss toss- ing lag it out of the window to toa a a man below then tossed out some bed bedclothes bedclothes bedclothes clothes and saved herself from injury by jumping on the bed clothes Another Another Another An An- other woman an art almost helpless crIpple cripple crip crIp- pie smashed her front window and crawled to the window ledge from rom which she was rescued by her neighbors neigh neigh- bors Another man grasped his two children by their night clothes held them out of a b window so that they I I might not suffocate ate in the stifling smoke Still another woman was held out of a window in the hands bands of ot her husband and when she tried to drop to the ground landed astride live electric wires from which perilous po position position position po- po she was rescued by a neighbor A fire captain after everyone was supposedly out responded to the cries of ot two children and went back into a 8 lame flame swept apartment and carried PU puppy Prince safely to the ground CAT DIES HERO All AU this this' within but little more than fifteen minutes There Then was but bat one casualty Tom Torn Tomis is dead Tom Torn found himself trapped absolutelY absolutely absolutely in lii the upper halt hall Not a 8 single door opened at t hla Ilia frenzied meowing which had awakened Parley Young whose cries In turn aroused others The front stairway was a mass of flames It was waa the th only exit that Tom Toni knew aside 1 from the closed up up- up stairs To escape the flames below Tom Torn had run up to the second floor UP-I UP He tried to dash down th tho front stairway stair stair- way way the the flooring had burned away and Tom Torn fell into the flames His burned bo body was picked up in the I hallway this morning and carried to I the rear of the building where whore today I it lay upon the remains of a partially I burned mattress Tho The wildest motion picture scenario I ever written with a a. a fire as a a. basis never contained more more thrills than were packed Into the moments that the apartment blaze carried on The flames seemingly started In sortie some rubbish beneath a a. wooden stairway stairway stairway stair stair- way loading leading from the ground floor hallway to the apartments Above Immediately Immediately Im Im- mediately above this thia stairway was a a. skylight and air shaft It acted as a a. natural flue and while it resulted In cutting cutting- off the front escape from the building according to Chief V V. H. H Bywater It is also proba probably ly responsible ble for the fact tact that the entire building building build build- bUild I ing was not burned The flames fairly fairly fair fair- ly roared up this natural chimney I Immediately l at the head of the stairs is a hall leading leading- to the rear stairs I D. D F F. Jonos Jones who lives livE's with his family on the ground floor had only one exit through exit through a do door r Im Immediately Ira Ira- I mediately be beside the blazing stairway He covered his head with a coat and rushed through the flames leading Mrs Jones to safety on the tho front side sIde- walk Jones at once ra ran to the rear of the building and up the rear stairs The door to the hall han was locked and bolted Jones threw himself against it it burst open the door and the flames and smoke drove e him out helpless to aid those living in the apartments ill all of whose doors opened Into this hall hail The opening of the rear door added another flue for the flames lames and they swept along the hall which became a veritable furnace The walls of tho hall and every door of every apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment were ablaze the charred woodwork woodwork wood wood- work this morning bearin bearing mute evidence evidence evi eVl- dence of that fact Jones ran down stairs crying to those who were screaming at him from I Ithe the windows at either side and the I front of the building to be calm Frank FrankI I H I. Hyde who also lives on the ground I floor immediately behind the Jones grocery escaped through his rear door with his wife and six children four of them grown sons A short ladder providentially lying 1 at hand was passed into service and the wont or started TOSSES BABE BABE FROM WINDOW Mrs Earl Hawkins whose husband Is out of the city did not wait walt for the thu ladder to be raised She Sho screamed to I. I Jones to catch and tossed him Rex her sixteen months old son Jones made madea a a. perfect catch Grabbing a small mattress mattress mat mat- tress and some bed clothes she forced mat mat-I them through the window which she she had broken out with the heel of her i hoe shoe She Jumped and landed on the I I bed clothes safe and attired in a night c gO gown Eown Meanwhile r Hyde and his sons had I taken the ladd ladder r to the front of the t 11 Building and started to rescue Mrs Mrs 1 Martha Smith a cripple who too had haa Broken open her window and crawled j Continued on page 2 2 c I CHilDRENS CHilDREN'S PETS I 1 Continued from page 1 out to the window ledge She was carried to safety M I The apartment adjoining that of Mrs Smith was occupied by Mr and l Irs Mrs R. R V. V Jones stood on the ground ready to c catch Mrs whom Mr Ir was lowering by her hands from their window Mrs dropped She landed squarely astride the electric light wires which run along that side side- of ot the building The ladder again came into play and she was carried safely down and was followed by her husband CHilDREN TAKEN OUT D Dr and Mrs T J. C. C Miller and their three children hildren were also alBo rescued via the ladder by Jones and ant Hyde as were also Mrs Mary Young and her son Parley the latter having haYing been the one awakened by the frantic efforts of trio tn cat to escape from the the- blazing hall hall- way The east side front apartment was occupied by DY Mr and 1 Mr- Mr John jotin Nye t their heir three children and H Henry nry Ne Nye father tather of t Mr Ny Nye Henry Nyes Nye's bed bedwas bedwas bedwas was beside the door leading leading- Into the hall at the head of ot the blazing front stairway Mr Nye awakened by yelping of ot the puppy Prince to find his bed ablaze the tho room room filled with smoke Dazed by the flames and al almost almost almost al- al most suffocated by te b smoke he hem managed m to crawl to the door connectIng connecting connect connect- ing his room with that of ot Mr and Mrs Nye His pounding and almost inarticulate cries them Mrs Nye dragged him to one window while M Mr l Nye Nyc grasped lila Kis three e children by their night clothes find And nd held them suspended suspended suspended sus sus- out of ot the other window wait walt ing ng for for tor the to bring the ladder which Jones and Hyde were using to get out the other occupants FIREMAN RESCUES DOG I Just at hs momen moment the fire department department depart depart- ment mont arrived and the Nye family was carried to safety by Captain William Hancock of ot No 1 compy compy ny and his men The Nye children screamed for tor their puppy Prince who had been for for- gotten Assistant Fire Chief W. W S. S Knight crawled back up the ladder in into into in- in into to the fire tire swept apartment and found the dog The only family living in the apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment building which was not ot affected by the fire fhe beyond as they described it It being scared to death was Mr and Mrs Kenn Kenneth th Carlson and their three children Their home is in the w west st rear rear of ot the structure the farthest point as it happened from the blaze I The exact cause of ot the blaze is not notI I known aside from the fact tact that itI it I seemingly originated In the closet be beI beneath beneath be- be I neath the tho front stairs Th The damage to the Jones grocery Is estimated as be being being be- be ing about 2300 with with- about two-thirds two insured The shoe shoo repair shop of ot John M. M adjoining the grocery store wa was wall damaged to the extent of or about The building b itself was damaged 1500 1600 The b building which I is owned by Henry W. W Taylor residIng residing residing ing near PrOvo Prove s valued at and is insured for tor The household household house house- hold goods of ot practically every family excepting the and the Hydes was ruined The Hyde furniture was saved largely through the presence of ot mind of ot Mrs rs Hyde and Her ner sons who dragged ragged it to the rear door and to safety BOY SAVES NAIL FILE Incidentally Mrs Hyde tells a good I story on one of ot her sons Bons He had gathered up a valuable rug an and was carrying It to safety when he saw a a. nail file on the floor loor He dropped the rug and carried out the nail file tile I Mrs Hawkins showed the fire chief through her apartment today The door panels had been completely burned I away only the actual frame badly charred remaining standing Carefully she l locked the remaining part or of the door I Today most of ot the tenants were busy trying to to find other othel apartments those I remaining to guard their property bein be be- beIng Ing In a varied assortment of ot garments an all embarrassing moment being when j lone one of ot the women greeting the reporter fould that she had put on her short jl outer cuter skirt over her night dress which I reached l to o the floor loor I |
