Show I GUILD CHILD SAVED FROM FIRE WOMAN WITNESS fAINTS Ill Rushing up a a. stairway to a 1 rear porch at ut litho No T East First South So uth street Sunday Sundar afternoon on which he saw Margaret Luke nine years old old enveloped in flames Samuel Henderson of the tho Merchants Merchants' Protective Patrol smothered out the flames from the childs child's clothing kicked the tho blazing can o of f gasoline down the stairway setting the tho stairway on fire put out the blaze on oil his own clothing which by this time had d badly burned his hand and scorched his coat and trousers and finally grabbed a hose and extinguished the tho flame flamo which was fast eating its way over the parched timbers of the Torch porch Sunday afternoon the tho Luke LuJe child at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to light a fire with gasoline In a oil coal stove The Tho oil all was lighted and the can cun was wis set BElt down beside the stove Tho The flame flamo quickly spread to tho the can cnn and In an nn attempt to put out tho the blaze her clothing caught fire Henderson who was pawing passing tho the place saw sav the tho th t flame enveloped child stand stand- Continued ou 11 Jl c. c CHILD SAVED FROM FIRE WOMAN WITNESS FAINTS Continued Krom Irom Page PUt On One Ing on the porch Rushing up the long flight of ot stairs he grabbed tho the burnIng burning burn- burn Ing Inh child and soon had tho the flames extinguished ex ex- t I n gu ed D By this time the tho flame on the tho can was getting larger and he kicked the flaming can down the stairway The Tho gasoline spread over tho ho sun warped sun boards of ot tho the old house and flames were quickly eating their way to the roof root Henderson for tor the tho first time noticed that his clothing was on fire fine tre This was put out and ho he then seized tho the hose and soon had tho burning buring- buring timbers drenched with wih water When hen the fire tire first started Mrs A. A L. L L McCormick proprietor of ot tho the house In running to tho the telephone for tor forthe the tho fire tro wagons became so excited that sho she fainted and it I was not until the fire tre had been completely extinguished extinguished extin extin- that sho she recovered |