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Show LIEUT. L SANTCHI, JRm BATTLES EIRE WOMAN AM) Tl!lti:i: C'tlll.DlUtN surroc'ATin) at imirsiimo. Army Offkrr from Cnrlnm County HclH In Hcciir of famlllr M tf to California Pout Niiinoiiii. ()m- lime Narrow lVcn- from tho flatnr Thai Claim four I.lu-, SAN fllANClBCO, Aug. 17. Mrn. France Warren 1'ernhlni;, wife of HrlRodler General John J. IVmlilnx. United Rtatex army, nnd three of ln.r four children were RUffocnted to ilcnth In their quarters at the Prevldlo twin) Their tiodlcft were hadly lurnel Mr. Walter HohwoII, a relative, and her two children cucaped. an did Warren Per (thins. 6 yearn of nKe. nnd three nervant. The dead children are Helen, 8. Anne, 7. and Mnrttnrel, 6 years. Mr. PcnihlnK wa a drfuithter of Senator Warren of Wjomlnif. Her hiuband, commanding the P.lchlh lirlfrnde, fnltcd State Infantr) I at l'l Piirn), Tex., In charKa of the Ininler troop. Mm. DorwoII wn the flrxt or the person In tho houiie to dlmiiter the flro. She was arouned 1 the imioke nnd awakened her children and railed to Mrs. Perhlmr. Then he opened tho door from her room to the hall A trust of smoke droe her back, and ho iaw flame In the hallwa. She took her children to the talrn. hut found It cut off by fire, and retreated through her room to the rouf of the front porch. Porrcd Hack Ity flame.. The noise of the flame by this lime had aroused Lieut Huxene Hantnehl, Jr., Twenty-first Infantry, C. J. Has-lltt. Has-lltt. private, and another soldier, who broke In door In tho house, but were forced back by the flame. Then Mr. Doswelt, from the porch roof, Hire her two children, Phillip and James. 3 and 0 year of axe, to the men below, still cnlllnir to Mr. Pershlnu. nnd Jumped herself Her maid prclously had Jumped and wa cauxht. Mrs. Itoswcll fell In a flower tied, wrenrh. InR her back. She was taken to the Presidio hospital. Warren Pershlmr was found uncon-sclou uncon-sclou on tho floor of hi room by "Johnson," tho Pershing aged colored col-ored servant, who led a rescue party Into the house. He was revlcl at tho Presidio hospital. In the corner of the house most burned tho rescuers found Mrs. Pershing dead on the floor with her arm ncrim onu of the children, chil-dren, who wa on the bed On another an-other bed was nnother child. The I third lay on the floor. The bodies all were considerably burned. Trbtl to Saw Chlldrrn. Apparently Mrs. Pershing, aroused T by the smoke and possibly by Mr. MoHUCllM repeated euoris to nnnnen her, both from tho hall and the front porch roof, hud gone through tho smoke nnd fire to the room where Helen and Anne slept and brought them with her. Warren room wa Inactesslbln to her. Major Henry II. Whitney, com-mandlng com-mandlng the Presidio. Immediately appointed a Iwwrd of Inquiry to report re-port on the fire. The iHwrd found that two grate fires Imd ln burning In tho liouiw last night- A hole was found burning In the celling of the dining room, which was taken to Indicate In-dicate that live coals might hae fallen fal-len from tho grate on tho second.floor and burned through. 1,1 HIT. KtrOKNUK.tSTM'HI. Jit.. POIlMKIt CAHIION COl'Vn I Lieut. Hugene Santschl. Jr, Twenty first United States Infantn, who was J ono of the first to reach the Pershing quartern and who risked his life In an ,h,i in ttitvii the occupants. Is well known locall). He I n graduate of the Utah Agricultural college and of West Point. I IH first assignment In tho army wa with the fifteenth Un ted States Infantry, Joining the regiment regi-ment nt fort Douglas, where It wa stationed on Its return from the I hll-Ipplno hll-Ipplno Island soxernl car ago. He Inter was transferred to the Twenty first Infantry and this .r ' """' vial detail as Instructor of mllltao tactic at the Utah Agricultural col- 'Tl'ctlt. 'dene Santschl. Jr.. was up-pointed up-pointed to West Point frmn , torljan county by (then) U.mgriinai Sul erland. hi home at the time being a Castle date. He Is a son of Mr. and xtry f santschl. Sr., who reslue nt Ulack Hawk !; -.Lit.. "' "'!' sx week ago. Mtely he "tn'le order from I.gan to the fwUIl" help with the movement of ir."H ' our Island possession. I P pooled back nt Logan by the It'' " the present month. |