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Show 15 Perish in Blazing Homes SIX CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES AT KtlOXVILLE Mother, 5 Youngsters Killed in Farm Tragedy KNOXVII.LE. Ti-nn. Niw pr-aon, pr-aon, six of them children, died In m trnrntrnt fir. ORKGON, III. A niothrr and her five umall children perinhed In farmhoune hlafe. CLEVELAND, Ohl Police carried 14 aged and Invalid patients pa-tients from a burning- honpltaL KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. Dec. ( 11 Firemen dug the bodiea of nine vie tims six of them children from the ruins of a flame-raxed tenement house early today. A long search of the ruins failed to reveal any other victims in tht old twostory structure described by Fire Chief C. M. Johnson as a "fir trap." The dead: Mra..McKinley Connat-ser. Connat-ser. .16. and three of her children, Virginia, t; Vallee. 4. and Luther, 11 Mr. Oata. Tata, M; her sort, gene, IT, and her three grandsons. R. L. Melton. 11; Junior Melton, i, and James Earl Melton, t. Fire swept the building shortly after midnight and trapped the victims vic-tims as they slept. Twenty-two other oth-er occupants, most of them children, Iran or jumped to safety. Jumps to (.round Gordon Tate. 22. son of Mrs. Tate, said from a hospital bed that he escaped by jumping from a second-story second-story window. He received only minor mi-nor bruises. 'The others were to have followed me." he sobbed. "I jumped and thought they were coming, but they didn't. They must have been trapped before they could get to the window." win-dow." . McKinley Connatser. 34. husband and father of four victims, seized his K-month-old son. R. C. Connatser, Connat-ser, and jumped from a second-story second-story window. "I screamed for my wife to follow fol-low me." Connatser. a newspaper vender, said. "But she couldn't get to the window with the other children, chil-dren, I suppose. Kept Waiting I kept waiting for them to jump. It was terrible." Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wright and their children, Lucille, 3. and Franklin, Frank-lin, 1. were injured and were taken to a hospital, but they were not believed be-lieved badly hurt. Chief Johnson said the old build ing was a "fire trap." but City Building Build-ing Inspector Walter Smith said it never had been officially condemned. con-demned. OREGON. III.. Dec. 9 (INS His face and hands bandaged, a heartbroken heart-broken father today told of his luck-1 less attempt to save his wife and J five young children who perished, in their flaming farm home. The victims were Mrs. Glenn ' Large. 27: Louis. 8; Darlene. 7; John. 5; William. 3, and Donna May. 2. Glenn Large said the entire fam-j ily had been asleep when the smell of smoke awakened him. With j flames blocking the stairway, he' hastily donned trousers and shirt1 and stepped through a window onto) the porch roof. He told his wife to pass the chil-' t Continual " PK Twoi j (Column Dili 15 LOSE LIVES IN HOME FIRES Continued front aea Om) dreo out to him, but he slipped on the icy roof and fell to the ground IS feet below. He tried !n vain to climb back on a pillar and then ran to a neighbor's house for help. He was badly burned when he returned re-turned to try to break into the biasing bias-ing structure. Firemen held bim back, CLEVELAND, Dec. (UP) Po-lice Po-lice carried 14 aged and Invalid patients pa-tients to sejfety today when fire swept the Ambler Hill sanitarium. AU available fire apparatus was sped to the building, a large frame structure. The sanitarium is housed In a former for-mer large dwelling house. Police believed aH patients bad been removed. |