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O' 61 30 N. Latitude
V” .rrSH 5, 1935.^
149 15 ”r. Longitude
FIRE BRINGS DEATH AND SERIOUS
INJURY TO EMBERG FAl'ILY O"1 "21
From a happy, laughing group to
r' a charred and shock-muabed quartet
driven into zero weather and a hirh
wind while their homo was devoured
by flames, is the trick Fato played
on the Emborg family in the space of
two minutes Saturday morning.
George, his wife, Evelyn, and
their little thrcc-yenr-old daughter
Dixie, were in the kitchen when the
accident ha-opened. Truman, brother
of George who cane up here on his
own about five weeks ago, was in an
other room.
The boys had just returned from
thawing out the puno and found that
the fire in the range had burned
itself out.- George, in somewhat of
a rush to get to town with Lis milk
deliveries, poured whs.t he thought
was kerosene into the firebox. It
was aviation gasoline. The half
^lled five gcllon can exploded in
i^s hands and the three found tiaom
JiSwLves enveloped in flames.
uitn nis vara oy nis s 1 a a ana
,-ittle Dixie under his c.nn, C-oorf.c
tugged at the door, hut the pres
sure within the room was too great.
He dropped Dixie, yanked the door
open with both hands, and bolted
outside with his wife and baby.
i Tru/ian had to pass through the
Turnede-like room to rerch the door.
/or a moment they huddled to
gether there in the whistling wind,
then Krs. Dmberg, her clothing most
burned from her body, ran to the
’tiding home about a hundred yards
'.way. After four attempts to con
trol the flames, the two boys had
to give up. They were oven foiled
by the heat in their attemnt to save
a trunk in which they had about four
hundred dollars, milk receipts for
the thirty quarts a day they deliver
to people of the camp. They, too,
made their way to the neighboring
house,.with Dixie. Hr. "ilding jumps
on his horse and raced the mile into
town for an ambulance, while Krs.
ilding administered first aid to
the stricken family.
Fire extinguishers were rushed to
the scene, but to save the heme was
hopeless. It burned to’ the ground
in less than an hour. The heat was
intense and exploding food cans shot
into the air fifteen feet. Silver
money that was later recovered xk s
found uartly melted into a gob.
At the hosoital Dr. Albrecht,
,/ith his assistants, Kiss Powers
and Kiss Kelly, quickly gave them
ghat relief they could and upon ex
amination it-was shown that Krs,
Imberg was the most’ critically
burned. Little Dixie, too, hrd
felt those hot' flames lick through
the skin and into the flesh of her
back andKlegs,
All four ’■;ere badly scorched
about the head and hands , but the
boys, -o rob ably due to the nature
of their clothing, escaped the
oainful end dangerous body burns.
fortunately, Dr. Albrecht h'd 1
at hand everything he needed in
the v/ay of modern equirment and
he made the patients as comfort
able as possible.. Mrs. Emberp, how
over, had considerable area of
third degree burn on her back and
her condition was considered real
serious.
On Sunday morning a call came
from the hosnital for volunteer
blood donors. \ft~r a number of
t sts were made Mr. Ross Sheoly
was chos~n and 500 cc’s, or over
a pint of his blood was injected
into Mrs. Smb rr's veins.
The effort to five her suffic
i nt strength to survive the com
bination of shock md injuries
failed and she sank slowly, nas
sing away at 6:45 Sunday evening.
Dixie is r bravo, coonorativc
little patient, -nd though she is
brdly burn.d she has an even break
to rjcover.
0- ;orge and Trurricn arc from
Proctor, I'inncsotn, while Trs.
Emberr cam.: from Milwaukee , ’ is
consin. Th y arc an industrious
nd thrifty family and tho loss
of the wife and i&pthor shatters
tho ire am of a hanpy homo in a
now land.
T'rs. Emburg will bo interred
rt tho Palmer Gome, tery on Tuesday
afternoon at 1:30, Reverend Erie
ling' of the Lutheran church con
ducting the service.
Phillip O’Neill of the commis
sary rcccivod word this week that
his younger brother had frozen to
drrth on tho trail near Valdez.
T'r. end T'rs. O'Neill left to
join tho mother on h^r way out
ifrem Tik.irtwnks where she has boon
visiting..
’’csloy, nino year old son of
Oscar and T'rs. Engebretson of
Treat "3, had what- may develop into
a serious injury vh-n ho foil unon
c pitchfork and ran one tine into
his rirht ye, nonetrating the bal]
dangerously close to the puoil.
Dr. Albrecht hes the lad under
treatment, but it may be a few
days before the extent of the in
jury is kno^n.
Correction
Due to a misunderstanding, it was
erroneously stated in Sally’s ad of
last w ok, that board would bo fur
nished fer )35 per month,
This is wholly in error and the
PIONEER apologises for a slip-up.