Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2020 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Troy (N.Y.) Times February 5, 1909 The Haskell Memorial Home is Burned Three Children Die. Battle Creek, Mich., Feb. 5 - The Haskell Memorial Home, a three-and-a-half story brick orphanage in this city, was destroyed by fire early to-day. Three of the thirty-seven little inmates were missing when the roll was counted in a cottage on the orphanage grounds after the fire: LENA McFERNEY, fourteen years old; CECIL QUOTENT, thirteen; GEORGE GOODENOW, eight. In the panic that ensued when the children were awakened by the first alarm seven little girls jumped from a third-story window, but it is not thought that any of them were fatally hurt, though RUTH HOFF, twelve years old, was seriously injured in the back. JAMES ARMSTRONG, twelve years old, stood on a shed under the window from which the girls jumped, directing them how to make their fall as easy as possible and catching two of the smaller girls in his arms. Mrs. R. S. OWEN, who with her husband was in charge of the institution, fought her way down the main stairway while it was a mass of flames, carrying a six weeks' old babe in her arms and with two small children clinging to her skirts. The fire started in the north wing and spread rapidly through the entire structure. The property loss will be about $50,000. ==========================================================================