The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1907, Page 1

THE SEATTLE STAR ONE CENT THE WEATHER—RAIN TONIGHT AND VOL. 9. 164 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON,’ SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1907. SUNDAY; FRESH BOUTH WINDS. ‘wo CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH AND ORPHANS HOME DESTROYE meee - — MATRON AND NURSES RISK THEIR L VES “FRENZIED FREDERICK” PLAYING HIGH FINANCE TO SAVE CHILDREN FROM TH FLAMES eerreeeereree + Follows Instructions of f His Ow Owner to Knock Municipal oe ie aes * * wants? sovnialinsiepei * BANK CLEARINGS, | m Lee se * *| Ownership, and Loots Water and Light Funds for Crabtree and Hazel Dead and Matron Minnie oon and Miss Agnes Hill Badl y YOUNG BOY SEARCHES a Ciserings ooo | eens . Coniral Tigenees,: Burned---Inmates Were Asleep When Conflagration Started in Rersenania FOR HIS PARENTS 5 °°" : g et Spread and Infants Are Cut Off From Rescue. Sy Ualiol Wises.) 1% Clearings today $736,165 * Fe FOI IOI III AIH IAA SIA AACA AACA ACA a i“ ere Deo, 28 A aa. oe * HOW “FRENZIED FREDERICK” sawyer 18 KNOCKING — ving about the country and satin: | @ Portiand. * UNICIPAL OWNERSHIP, & DEAD. : yeaa F f that he hax had more hin |® Clearings today 841 Fs Iris scree. 4 months old. quicRly did the fire spread that all was practically over be- {ll now give all Crista Cala ecena daca eecnen or ‘Requiring the municipal light fund to transfer te the water fund $80,000 of the $100,000 to be received January 1 from the state for ite last bond issue Dipping into the water fund for the payment of district fore even a ladder could be secyred from a neighboring house. | Reap for his parents, who were in bate Sh Francisco at the time of the Six in Nursery. - rthquake PRISONER LOSES THE INJURED. 5 Mrs. Minnie Myers, matron, burned about face, back and | Six children were in the nursery where the fatal Howard has not seen any member improvements, current general expenses and the supply of Jourred. The nurser Rien here the fatalities OC) of hie family since the terrible ca THUMB In JAIL water to the city gratis, and for the maintenance of the fire Miss Agnes Hill, nurse, shoulder wrenched and face! y was situated in the rear of the second) tastrophe He sailed from San Fran boat ‘ floor, and entered by a single door leading to the main part)@iseo before the quake on the steam impoverishing the municipal light fund at a time when all the carelessness of an ite current assets are needed for its own immediate uses, and requiring it to’ borrow from the banks at @ high rate of inter- est the money which is being taken from it for current ex penses. Impoverishing the water fund to such an extent that it is ce , jof the second floor, There was no back stairway and no/@t Chill. Me went to Austratia ive “a . | me: . a ated | othe t ner, KR Tindolph ,< {Means of escape after the one doo el tote f _ | Where, he says, he was shanghaied r privon ‘g Despite heroic efforts to save all, two children out of 25) excepting gt oye ¢ one door was blocked by the flames, |by the crew of @ British coal steam. | fined in the county jul! awa te “ fer, He also complains of il! treat. | tr of grand | burne By the time the inm: red the loss of the tt adc ERR RRRL P N I TM eath in a fire which destroyed the receiving t tes had escaped from the house the )/ment at the hands of the Americ ‘ aking ; es ; esdiolainha a ) ne Ne American Of the Washington Children’s Home Finding association | neighborhood was,aroused, and scantily clad people rushed to }eonmel at Rio Janeiro, He fears bis left hand this morning. Tin impossible to sell bonds for extension work on the credit of Mortimer, on the Seattle-Tac interurban between Fos- |the scene vais helned. cate for tha fekntia Gites " jibat bis parents may have been dolph ts an inmate of the north that fund and rendering it necessary to sell such ° bonds d Riverton, about 2 o'clock t 7 ¢ children, who were} jhtiled in the earthquake tank, and one of the othe against the general credit of the city. s years old, and Iris Crabtece, 4 months old, |'2k#%, £0 the cottages near by, where they are being cared for] the tank shut the b ee roe nee at present. Others joined in an attempt to save the furniture} WEATHER HINDERS Work, | hi* hand. The thumb was « K stex Pee eee eee ee eee ee eee ee eS SSS SSE SEE SSS eRe ee ee Haze! Lc TTT re eee eet cee eee eee eee 2 enveloped in flames in the nursery before either of the | from the lower floor of the build ng. Some of it was taken at the first knuckle and comy eo $ in th Iding could reach’ ther ¢ charred lo shee | ~ ol eo expo. | #¥ered -_- -- adults in the ting could reach them, Their charred jout before it was reached by the rapidly spreading flames, page= nga the expo Frenzied Frederick” Sawyer, |fund directly to the general fund b were still lying in the ruins at 11 o'clock this morning but it was not taken far enough from the building and later sh ee, delayed a tae pt a EERE REE EE EEE HEHE the representative of the Seattle for the payment of current expenses [Four other children were literally snatched from the flames | caught fire. Nothing but a charred organ and th tiful ; rie ® | wie company in the city coun-|of the elty, and, in addition to this Sr hie A rill cue Wide blac ts ; : : 4 gan and the pitiful gessant rains The Westlake Con @ FLEET SAILS SUNDAY. * ; for that enertonn geet g the light apereety rv ss es cape — ay Baer a remnants of a few Christmas toys remain of the contents of )gtrtetion company, which hau the » r Sonn Bhi fun a ‘ this par th wr tin a ee ehtidres eives & s Sales eltnets Oo: 3 Liha betidiae Sper artim ee onl oo , ; y, of the finance com iw | fund , ortunate , time 10 19 oliler ¢ s a y the heroi f i Mrs. ithe building first three me reports thet # PORT OF SPAIN, Dec. 28 * serving well the erest bis the immediate repayment of $60,00 finnie Myers, the E. C. Shumway, hired man, and Within an hour the building was a smoldering mass of E caccaliga De je waather moderates | t Atlantic fleet will # Tell so his efforts te tiple | borrowed by it from the water E. C. Shumwa at the home cinders, the smoke from which hid the charred bodies of the . bs nil! tomorrow morn * she munielpally-owned utilities of |fund, thus compelling the light tung How Fire Stare |two children |__ Tacoma Offices Robbed + teerty partie Goss Fe te] oe, O. eapeee sr lat « blah bnae of tntarent on a Sie L | Ch “ gee ve ack eye to munic « E nterest 0} - di ‘ arred Bodies Found. | TACOMA, Dec Thirteen of-|w duced because of the work *® he is rant issue with which to ¢ The fire the stove in the nursery ae ‘ Menge py ye: Ghaeri gd ere le : rr e is rant Issue with which to carry om | When morning car and the smoke . < yovies nei ne aboard the ship * " la its construction work w it of the sec me clothing hung to dry 1orming came and the ke cleared away the were visited by the office thief this * * o. | ceive , ; > 8 remains of the two bodies were found, charred beyond e en- | celves from the state in May the and within few minutes the nursery . ar mid recog) week. ee ee ee ng thelr operation difficult for final installment of money for ite $ spread so quickly that it | Sti" From their position it appeared that the children had se= tl nh charge of them, and ¢ last bond issue. neially ro-| The water fund having been im- filled 1 s. The fla fille< ‘ “ died in their beds, probably being mercifully smot « thel rent in e to poverished through a series of at one ¢ e y and . c er ase years to pay expenses not properly lives, as there was b ntrance to the nurser might poss have saved the two children who Rio » giving the the frantic children ‘wh ruction work. Regardiess of this } s cut off . 7 char ble to it, the general fund sh Acad elt all Mas da ‘ai Hill, the day nurse, who heroically saved p Psat yea und | tecturers’ association met at 1:20 sented he t adie ene underhanded 8 |the proposed bond issue can be Stee} ue w ~ vag egg sa a Charlie Wilson at the risk of her own life this afternoon in its regular month the lum! b ft tage ron gps Holger (, fifaneed, At the same time thé img, all escay clothes cares ne Ps 4 ly semalon. The Pacific Con I ent ( f the | )* SOS OS Os vee S credit of the er de t Miss | i Sos ae gre oes hk “aeronew 0 |tee which hid ¢ ch the children who were Gils forenoon and the spec f . hy VaNt plant wouss it will probably be found necessa: bef . ils ~ Pog ‘ene? od through (10st lay. The two I rosite side of the | mittee of the shingle mills ; therefore not y ge Piya og rc oe , to mi that bond fasue against ent bef c ¢ start ¢ had ju epped through | pon 4 tried % P to the of, but | Continued Ite ne ) esterday a Vv H. Re ¥ , Pp the general credit of the city. With her to lie down when there was ajin. flay ‘sant a0 & ¥ Vl in the matier « anging & new f . , per financial management of the et Running back, Miss Baer saw that! 1 yen i pedtow’ Sages : het I wet Of grading rules to be effective ' © be Mt $ " i : me of the water department, t was only difficulty that I found a window | ip time for the «pring trade € { one bond fssue would hav i stove was blazing. Frantically she! .44 opened it 1 H. Bledel nager of the f ‘ ‘ pind [Oto hag : . | extinguish the fire, but it Larsen Lumber company at Belling the ‘ ! enaiie it ‘ Bes At the same time the . ’ pany tlie . 7 7 the same im: general The paper on the wall caught Jumped From Window. bam Washing the meet extension without resort 0! tund is being crowded by the cure , 1 the flames quickly ran to the ceiling and “After I pped the two 4 the window : ‘ the lumbe t oan was t th aii” tan” we IDK | rent expenses of the city so that 1€ pm there spread thron room might have turned back and ¢ other two had 0 complete od and | becomes necessary to joot the Meme 1 “iy ' ph ( : <= ne '< fund to enable it to loan money to i 4 rtd peda Alarm. a y that they were 05 ‘ ‘ was ¥ of s ol ae eee Se S © impoverished water fund. j i and the flames spreading. 1 jump the ground and { and b ant j & ‘Then Miss Baer seized Chester Cook 4 OGNA 404 ne tec cation ware tabene. Cale uot Ecce) ; ed through * the Needs Ite Assets. | Ww. sag 13 ; ; tren nhe I not know was 4 orgie gpm Venatchee Lee, aged weeks, and rushed fre the room | i yself + i wee alt over | we ty grein A ; pei Meanw lighting fund | ith them to the m, in the front of the second i to the f t tu 4 ; t 7 BB Fe sai os a eds all its current assets for the | w « rr 4 . » € } the ot with ‘: om “ purpose of financing its own con Miss Agnes day nurse, was awakened by her cries a nn. girsoet nae | hereby forcing # recourse te dines a te th , a A a muir hands full taking care of them we cx not pos Running & man down in the | telephone hen they mer ae) See fact, however, it is prog to ran tot e nu The stove from which the fire caught | sibty save the two who were lost.” heart of the business din | ake at the ny call a os ak Mosmelan tha orene taker canon fi tye ae a oe aor te Che aia and Mise HI had to Miss Hill and Miss Baer were cared for after the fire |@rlet and refusing to call a phys eg ex by ¢ Vig eg ee ney water tani, Maneamtne Gin. Sant h past t es to reach the sleeping children. She &rab-) by neighbors, who furnished them with clothing, all of their Ban or offer any ald tx the charge |soucn bound, knocked dows hi At the same time the light plant strnetion work on the extension of | up J ie Glover ar Ayer ag sto og Mag 2 ar-old possessions being burned in the fire Yat Officers MeCiur 4 head a t . " w has @ current net income of | in. light plant bas been so delay Ss, anc to carry them back through the door, but she M . Hake against the r bot n “ af « ¢ by legtelative procrastination ang r . Miss Baer, the night nurse, was s adjoinir 1 ind her escape blocked by the flames, and turned back into! cottage this en She nde ; or ae age NINE | gompany in regard to the tnjury of fasal of the Ele . infriendliness that the light pisat Wit 56: Mia ft fe f ae " . - & . we, g been | Anthony G. Reed of 7 av, ¢ call medical « e, Hee “ j rugeling under a load of cur gael i ws diffic ulty -* found her way to a win low | employed in the home but a few days [Becokd av. neat Washington ot. at sent to Providence hospita rent greater than it was ever ime | eh =“ stif ing - rk ~ succeeded in Nov oe — “{ cannot account for the fire.” she said. “There did not (9:30 o'clock last nigh D hn Hunt 1 tended to carry, a load which, but » Bewwopped the two children to the ground, some 16 feet below, ‘ ates hin atone le ‘The man was drunk, and since | H declared tha ‘ . the superiority of its engineer- § jumped after them Salina 4 vferwy getboogy ete + Sik = he to be mace fire in the stove when I left the room. What he fa im the hands of the es luot been @ 7 * 2 design and construction would | Ried = wrenched shoulder-and bruised { rng here was must have been in the back of the stove, as it was|we have nothing to do with it ted that he did ~ t be absolutely impossible for it tq ‘ aw , nomen" s 4 vated €F ithe baby clothing hanging near the back of the stove which jibe answer the police got over the | taste juor . . < “Frenzied Frederick's” Scheme Verily “Frenzied Frederick” is j caught fire —— | & nt is getting doing well the work for which he :- But wet as the p a Rescue Is Blocked. , ‘ | Fought the Flames. on {te feet, financially, “Frenzied was elected to the city council, an@i i inding that the children were safe,’ Miss Hill rushed “When I saw the flash I pushed to the room and saw the Fredert proposc nd the coun- for which he was made chatrmat the front entrance to join in the rescue of the older children ‘ el arently ready and willing during bis first term of office o flames running up the clothing I grabbed the clothing, pull After carrying her charges to safety, Miss Baer, the night} ing it down, but before I could stamp out the fire it caught the ae len, a, Pom - _ it aaa ima , attempted to re-enter the nursery, but the flames com-|the wall paper and began to spread. Then I grabbed the ; sale anal secsiieeniibaaiilinti iyeblocked the doorway. Mrs. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Shum- | two ch t i : } b, , my ' a : o children nearest the fire and rushed to the matron's room } and the three turned their attention to saving the 19! minutes, but when I reached the door the com-| Ger children, all of whom slept on the second floor in the| ing through into the f t William Stroud, a motorman on |of two curves at Fort h st , hep g through into the front part of the house The stov itiiam § " % f » Siamese | i : Pile Shak tin theories Sixth . he b n bt By United Press.) was given the seven Italians to Bm sertic m of the hor : : j which the fire started was right next to the door, so etrie line, | b OriRED | iece of tre NOHOMIBEH. ¥ De a throw up their hands and tura theta Crazed with fear, the awakened children made thie work | door was barred almost immediately.” running Fremont-Ballard ear | ft < gis : a 4 er eo. Mees to the wall. The Italians é Fol resc ue most difficult rrying hither and thither in panic, | Desertion by her father was the Sicect. thud bNo, 343 through Fremont at at te weet. it pages ge! 9 aga showed fight and a volley was open- Ythey were ed by the older people and hurried down the! dzath of Hazel Lee, the 3-year-old victim of the tra piolock this morning at a high © | verse curve and shot at an a . a : - ~ from —s oa ae = i ; rp és I ad rapt egy ap «Span ae ; ae - af wan tote atemeiant | : the ere ree men fell and in the mixup ' irs and n the wet g und in their night cloth } Hazel was one of two children of Mrs. Hazel Lee, of ne Pint att the track | plate lent « ‘ nit a spade and an ax were secured and ‘ when a child was carried to safety it continued |atchee, who died at the Wayside Emergency hospital Dece n piel 2 ‘ th ty for years for several minutes a battle raged t. Most of the children clung to the jber 19 " f e dead p jed by in the little room of the cabin. Fin- he ron, impeding her movement Sor Mrs. Lee had be by her husband, and was} 1 . ba geioke ge 2 . ye mi ft . ~~ hold-ap ! had to be driven it a second! take he Waysid eer ¢ { ed to F v ' ‘ on_was laid low by a Mow fra ‘ iver it a aken to the Wayside after the birth of a child. Miss] be bad Mra \ 4 t t 1 e ax cleaving his skull and spate as oll that tt grown people could do to ering his brains over the floor, In Majors, matron of the notified Mrs. Lee's father, Dan ‘ 4 regained conselousness up t , ail ry bate ge 2 yut of the ng building and keep them in} Watson, of Con lly, of the death of his daughter, He wiredjo'dlock this afternoc and it a t A tly t his name Wi wa ng go Poon = po back to. bury her in Seattle jxaid the chances of } , great } ve ' } yma as felled by a blow fron Returns to Building. Children Sent to Home [ere slight Pm reer hay Arig ee & \ Mille Sheriff Beard was notified of the | the ere out, with the excep leith nor grandfather made any provision for = Led ri de ing pesos | 5 t tt agedy and placed the Italians un- t by the flame n the nursery, the cry went ren, and they were sent to the home by the/at a high rate of speed tle ; 1 canta 8 5 “ eard on | der arrest ending an examination ee Bepie ih ry : ; - , gt oc rales iw i e coroner, which will take ren were in the bu c Hazel met her death there he infant | wee « new man on : Ab ed er A @ this afternoon ames, Matron Minnie Myers dashed up the liss Baer, the night nurse a er eee Senne: ae, 1885) > ‘ 3 ; a sea of flames and escape apparent € ywn children e trustees of the society 1 a sition . of the josion, all : éting in the headquarters, room 323 New. York block, sand coulda nave Genk keane tee | the ba 4 t Wi, morning, to arrange for their care. It was decided | mile the < the bi al to the Ladies’ Relief society to temporarily care Mrs. Charles Pickard, who was 4 ' c € were prompt the children in their home, on Re t., Queen Anne hil a ri employed in the Bradley home but M ad been 1 f, | R » ¢ the 1 oa 4 Pe ES, , Moe + re (By United Press.) tion with Presider far By United Pre he had potiosd the odor ! ; mets Sonne | I ape, ; t , este a sah act aT he BOSTON, Dec. 28.—A new se as the presidentia ec ROISE, Idaho, Dee. 28.—1 C the day before ithat a certain. resp ibilit fe e tr ly re n eir err ‘ hown * tx 1 Orchard's sta nt : tion in the national political arena ‘ " ¥ ew t neight ¥ € 1 ared for until shoulders, the trustees authorized th ecuring. of a tempor! .. sorung today when Vory It eported I ent | cedings of the Pett geet anied her to the theater on the ar: doctor th 1 Ihe doctor dressed her |rary home where the children would be safe until a perma : Fagen hall aye haf air gy gua abit Sik devoted t3't AR me ecseree fre Bege rege ly er inj uric + her to the S« e Ge 1 tal jnent home can be built. Plans for a permanent structure have |¢ar presidential honor tvised the ‘ e the Merchants’ as-|4 ot the he Gaicaii: ‘ban neeee The was 1 l and = built lalready been made i to sever his ec " n Ls aber ce r « adie 1» afterward