3 Chil<h*en Die
In Fire At Kake
PETERSBURG, Alaska, </P) —
Snowballs and a salt water buck
et brigade failed to stem a fire at
midnight Monday which burned
three children to death and de
stroyed their home in the Indian
community of Kake near here.
U.S. commissioner Dale Hirt of
Petersburg returned from there
yesterday and told about it.
Most of the village inhabitants
were attending a salvation army
food sale when the alarm soun
ded.
The town’s water supply had
been frozen for weeks so “the old
men started throwing snow on the
two-room house while the young
men and boys formed a bucket
brigade to the beach,” William
Dugaqua, an eye witness, recalled.
Although the tide was low and
the temperature was likewise—
below zero— Hirt said heroic ef
forts were made to try to rescue
the children: Ellen June, 5; Peter
Jr., 4; and Raymond Ernest, 3,
whose father is Peter Quick. Mrs.
Quick and two other children
were at the food sale when the
fire struck.
While snow and salt water were
being pelted unavailingly on the
flames. Cheste« James dashed into
the burning house and found two
of the children already dead from
burns and suffocation. A few
seconds later Dugaqua and others
broke into the bedroom and found
the body of the third tot.
The visiting Metlakatla basket
ball team helped fight the fire.
Hirt said it was oelieved the
children might accidentally have
set the fire v hen trie'* tried 10
refill the small home’s wood stove.
The children will be buried in
Kake.
30 Millions In
Housing For
Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—More than
$30,000,000 worth of Alaska hous
ing has qualified since August of
1949 for federal housing admin
istration insurance, Clinton C.
Staples, territorial FHA director
from Juneau, said Saturday.
He said $8,000,000 of this mon
ey was insured for Fairbanks
housing, with work expected to
start in the spring.
Staples has been here surveying
military and civilian housing pro
jects coming under FHA loans.
Sixty-two units under considera
tion are for the Alaska railroad
terminal here. Staples said no
commitment has been made as
yet, but he predicted approval
this year.
Other approved Fairbanks pro
jects:
256 multiple units, Weeks field
subdivision, by Fairview Realty
Co., estimated cost, $3,000,000; 62
units, Denali section, by contrac
tor Phil Strand, estimated $750,
: 000; 64 units by J. R. Dixon Asso
> ciates, between 9th and 11th aven
ues, estimated $750,000; McKinley
Manor apartments, by directors of
i the Bank of Fairbanks, Reed and
! Martin, Inc., estimated 3,000,000;
i 1 0 0 privated homes, south of
Weeks field, by Fairbanks Realty
: and Home Construction Assn., es
timated $1,500,000.
Staples said approval of insur
ance has been given a 25-unit
; apartment by John and Martha
! Cushing in Sitka.
Staples will leave for Juneau
Monday, accompanied by his wife
j and chief architect Roy L. Swan
i son.
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