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Show SIX CHILDREN BUnNED TO DEATH Mothers Left Little Ones at Home While They Were Attending Theatrical Performance. ' Eleven-year-old Girl Makes Heroic but Unavailing Attempt to Save Helpless Tots and Is Probably Fatally Burned. Palouso. Wash. Six children perished per-ished nnd ono other was fatally burned In a flro which destroyed the homo of H. W. Schultz near this place. Of tho six dead four woro the children of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fix of Wnlln Walla, ranging from C years to C months, nnd two were of tho Schultz family, a boy of C years and a girl of 7 months. Hoso Schultz, a girl of 11, was fatally burned. Mrs. Fix, a slster-ln-lnw of Mr. Schultz, with her four children, wan visiting tho Schultz homo nnd early in the evening sho and Mrs. Schultz camo to Palouso to attend the theatre, leaving tho children nlono at home. After tho children had gono to bed tlio houso, from somo unknown cause, caught flro and hnd mado considerable- progress before tiro children wore awakened. Rose, tho oldest Schultz child, said that "when sho becamo conscious hor bed was on flro and tho flames had reached her hair. Tho other children mndo a desperate effort to save tho smaller ones. Rose Schultz had tho others saturate her clothing with water nnd sho then ran Into tho burning building to rescue tho babies. In this heroic but unavailing un-availing effort sho sustained burns which will, It Is thought, result In her death. Suffering from her burns. Hose -ran half n milo across a flold to a neighbor's houso for nsslstnnco, but by tho tlmo sho arrived there tho Schultz homo had been consumed and tho children were dend. Tho mothers, who returned from tho theatre an hour later, nro prostrated by tho shock. Tho fathers of tho children hml loft hnmn tlin ilnv bnfnrn wUl n threshing crow. |