St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 9, 1900

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Tee ee SR re F* Pw ~ ate + Les ant oe roe arent * Miss Amy Townsend’s Narrow Eseape From Fire. Oe MR. TOWNSEND'S HOME BURNED ——— ee RARE PRESENCE OF MIND OF MRS. TOWNSEND. Furnishings of the Beautiful House on Delmar Boulevard Completely Ruined by an Early Morning Blaze. —_—_ ~~ Miss Amy Townsem, daughter of Passen- ger Agent H. C. Townsend of the Missourt Pacific Hallway, risked ber life to save her jewels early Friday morning. After escaping from her burning home she ran back to get the precious articles. Her second escape Was far narrower than the first. The Townsend residence !s a handsome brick strueture at 4315 Delmar boulevard. | The flames which came so near claiming four human lives raged for two hours, at the end of which time the beautiful furnish- ings of the interior were reduced to a mis- shapen mass of ruins, Only the women of the household were Ke ee” Tinited States, Mrs. Fowler stopped in To- peka, Kan. While that city a young man of medium stature, with a di irk complexion and seemingly pos- seesing all the fire of the traditional Gr: ek youth, came forward to have his head examined by the lecturer. When Mrs. Fow- ler placed her hands on the hair she exclalme«/: “Thank Heaven! Here is a man.’ After the lecture was over Mrs. Fowler learned the history of the vouth She fearned that he had migrated from the Istarmd of Citeece, Where t 187” She learned that he age of 17 gr. tla ted With th honors In the schools’ of Sparta, his native e ty; that the Insaat! alile «te sife (oO “Quire KinoWw!- eige hal sect : soul on fire and that In hos efforts ta “ he fl, of that fire he had comet ite | States in INO, drifted to T rf Where without Deng able ft a aetye Bavtilardiete In the Engiish tongue, he entered the primary de- partment of public sehools and era. ated within eluhtee nthes Shire that he had Washburn without deus After completing the im the pout schools and bal gers from that institution of learning. as in hls native city in Greece, the honors and AS © token « the oratoricn! contest his Was decorated with aometial @old which he has w 1! wrotliecht Vert Yelelalern matinee riptures he Closed his Ullile O lari. to whom all things belong, Embrace me with thy jewe, Amd teach me how to ilve each lay, To teet thine own aleve I erek to grasp thy truth divine, And letig to follow the; That where thou art. my seul be ferund, Contented, tuyppy, ‘tis found, lead me on 1 love ths on. yee thie met aent To free world tram sin to hie standard I will «cing The ctown of life to win In brief, she learned that this Greek Was the intelieetual wonder of that town Of intellectual wonders and new ideas. She Had been looking for @ man on whom ie Cast her mantic. that the work tn white she Was engaged might be carried othe Ward after her, and she had found him, Bhe made him ner (private secretary and With a closer etuc of his character and intellectual) attribute ‘se ehe,th ough 6) years of age. be gun tO love tine vouth of 4 The MATTIARe license re ords In Kansas City, under date of Feb. 7 record the end of that « hapter of the stor, Of herself, Mra. Pow let ‘ ‘hurhes, hw preters to aty- ® hepeel! Hitie, She earnes, ly professes to Kaged in the Work of hes master in teaca- itn pent le how to live Sie lectures tpon | T the spirit, seul — body, oon physiology ima hea Ith , Mre ani Mr ‘ ‘humos arrives! tn St Laruts Thureday and 4 > Thee yj! martes Te } At thre Lindel, iz Ww of tne wile sie avf tiat hiaes phrenology, de itverin a ,ecture in? ; - ; ‘shordy beiore 3 oO CiOCK, young man's | fire started, Mrs. Townsend and her daughter, Mlss Amy, Were asiecp in the front room on the second floor. Miss Bertha was in jolnimg room ana the se»svant girl her apariment in the atti, Mrs. send was awakened by tne nuvise erackling flames. The bedroom Which she and M.ss Amy occupled was already filied in the residence When the. i with smoke. telry are aware that the aged aomar, with | a iovarie grandmotherly countenance. with, hair long eines whitened bey PuaSsSitie Vewais and the dark-lairel dark skinned youth et her side ve aha hin and wi ESTATE VALUED AT $6. 000, 000. Will of P. D. Armour, Jr., Will Shortly Me Filed CHICAGO, Til, Feb 9—The wit) of the fate FP. DD. Armour, Jr. is expected to be (They Will Steel Heop and Amertean Tin Plate Corm- , panties, ate estate in estimate at Meman fe is une | tet that the Arimour packing concern eretonaegge aS & result of the death | | er ee ee fin conference tn tnis city. and fled for probate within a few aye. ils | With sare presence of mind Mrs. Town- ser opened one of the front windows tu admi: pure air and afford the smoke an avenue of escape. She aroused Miss Amy. and daughter did not take They hurried into the hall, found the smoke even more dense ‘than in thelr bedroom They grope!? their way to Miss Bertha’'s anata nt and beat upon the door until thelr hands were brulsed by the unusual ex- ertion, what seemed a very long time to anxious women Miss Bertha re- epordesd, When they were quite sure she had been arouse | and was alive .o the danger which threatened her, Mrs. Townsend and Mise Amy turned their attention to the house- mm ahd Julia, who wis asleeg in her attic room oon the floor above. Thev st ited for the rear staircase lead- ing to the at’’:. but they soon found that route would be impoass!ble. rear portion of the house Was like a fuscnace, the flames betng flercest bathroom, direetiv beneath the ser- sleeping ap irtme rt. ‘Misa Amy curned In an alarm from a pri- Vite eall box In the hose, Tieen tlhe ? hha eonstantly thickening smoke ard roountexd the front stairs to the attic. There aroused the girl, Julia, and jus: in Ament bw that whe was alreecy partlally overcome The mother and dauehter of the house asciated the servant down the staircase Mise Rertha had already made her way to the «treet The four women found a ref- ug at the reaidence of Mrs. E. Forbes, Next door west 1+ was after she had reached this haven of anfety that Miss Amy thought of her ewelry which she had left on her dres-er Vithout makirg her Intention known she slipped away and returned to the burning house She entere!] through the front door and ascemied the stairs through the smoke. She reached the room where she and her mother bad been sleeping and felt about for dresser, which was hidden from view emoke ehe was found by Patrolman Gth- the Tenth Pollee§ TDtetrict. He her of her danger and ‘nducel her “re| her jewelry rear portion of the house waa ecom- leetroved The fire ! FROM B ATTUE! ty si ee La nee ones wee re - i -_ Me ae CRP ae Gee we