Henrico-Richmond City County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Firemen Rescue Family March 30, 1903
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Linda Blum-Barton http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000645 March 20, 2006, 5:34 pm

The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. March 30, 1903
Richmond, Va., March 24 -- A mother, father, infant and servant were rescued by 
firemen from suffocation in a fire which occurred here at 1:55 this morning.

The family were all asleep at the time their lives were endangered.  The 
household consisted of R. L. Charles, his wife and infant son, and a servant 
named Rosa Carter.

Fireman E. H. Harris reached the third door [floor] by means of a ladder.  He 
found the room dense with smoke and the family fast becoming suffocated.

He snatched up the baby, wrapped it in his coat and handed it to another 
fireman, then on the ladder, who carried it to a place of safety.

Returning, the first fireman wrapped Mrs. Charles in a quilt and then carried 
her to the window and handed her to a third fireman, who landed her safely.

Mr. Charles was then awakened, and descended the ladder with the assistance of 
the fireman.

The servant, when aroused, became so excited that she started to climb down the 
ladder head first, and would have been dashed to pieces on the ground below but 
for fireman No. 4, who set her right and assisted her in reaching the street. 

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