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HUMBERSTONE FIRE-HORACE RAMEY
Humberstone News
[Welland Tribune, 4 February 1898]
At about 1 p.m. on Monday, fire came near destroying the home of Horace Ramey; and, worse still, very near resulting in burning his baby boy, Adin. Some clothing had been hung about the stove to dry, and this by some means caught on fire. The flames soon leaped to the clothing hanging on the walls, to the curtains, and to the wooden ceiling of the room. The place was hot as a furnace, the fire was eating its way toward the roof, and the little three-year-old boy was in vain trying to climb up the steps to the next room and fight back the fire with his little hands. The father and mother were both out of the house, but the former saw the smoke coming through the roof and ran toward the house, crying fire. Others followed, the boy was quickly rescued, and the pail brigade was instantly at work drawing water from the large cistern close at hand. Determined efforts finally succeeded in putting down the fire and the building was saved. A look at the blackened interior, the melted zinc, and the burned contents, gives one a good idea of how near we came to having a disastrous conflagration.
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