Baltimore, Aug. 16 -- (AP) -- Flames and smoke roaring through an old brick house killed four persons in a family of six before dawn today after one of the hottest nights of the summer.
The blaze said by firemen to have started in an attached frame building used as a summer kitchen, was under control in less than 30 minutes after it was discovered.
The dead: Bert Parnaby, 48, a shipfitter; his wife, Gertrude, 45, their children Ethel, 16, and Margaret, 8.
Only two were saved. They were Gertrude, 10, and Charles, 19, who dropped from a window in the rear of the two-story house.
Mrs. Parnaby died several hours after being rescued by Fireman Albert Uriahs a neighbor who was off duty, when she dashed through flames in an effort to find her two daughters.
The blaze said by firemen to have started in an attached frame building used as a summer kitchen, was under control in less than 30 minutes after it was discovered.
The dead: Bert Parnaby, 48, a shipfitter; his wife, Gertrude, 45, their children Ethel, 16, and Margaret, 8.
Only two were saved. They were Gertrude, 10, and Charles, 19, who dropped from a window in the rear of the two-story house.
Mrs. Parnaby died several hours after being rescued by Fireman Albert Uriahs a neighbor who was off duty, when she dashed through flames in an effort to find her two daughters.
Baltimore, Aug. 16 -- (AP) -- Flames and smoke roaring through an old brick house killed four persons in a family of six before dawn today after one of the hottest nights of the summer.
The blaze said by firemen to have started in an attached frame building used as a summer kitchen, was under control in less than 30 minutes after it was discovered.
The dead: Bert Parnaby, 48, a shipfitter; his wife, Gertrude, 45, their children Ethel, 16, and Margaret, 8.
Only two were saved. They were Gertrude, 10, and Charles, 19, who dropped from a window in the rear of the two-story house.
Mrs. Parnaby died several hours after being rescued by Fireman Albert Uriahs a neighbor who was off duty, when she dashed through flames in an effort to find her two daughters.
The blaze said by firemen to have started in an attached frame building used as a summer kitchen, was under control in less than 30 minutes after it was discovered.
The dead: Bert Parnaby, 48, a shipfitter; his wife, Gertrude, 45, their children Ethel, 16, and Margaret, 8.
Only two were saved. They were Gertrude, 10, and Charles, 19, who dropped from a window in the rear of the two-story house.
Mrs. Parnaby died several hours after being rescued by Fireman Albert Uriahs a neighbor who was off duty, when she dashed through flames in an effort to find her two daughters.
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