New York Herald (NY)
7 July 1885
BURNED IN THEIR HOME
MIDNIGHT PERIL OF FAMILY AND LOSS OF FOUR LIVES.
WOODBRIDGE, VA., July 6, 1885. -- Further particulars of the fire which occurred here on Saturday last show the results to have been more disastrous than at first appeared. It seems that there were eight persons in the house at the time -- Joseph Harrison, his wife and two children, Samuel Harrison and a Mrs. Bailey and baby, and Miss Bailey. Mrs. Harrison got up during the night to get her oldest child a drink of water, and she does not remember whether she blew the lamp out or not. She afterward discovered that the house was on fire and called her husband, who got up and took his two children and called his brother Samuel. Then he and his wife and Mrs. Bailey and a baby and Miss Bailey started down stairs. Samuel came down and started to the front door. When he entered the front room the smoke and heat were so great he fell, but finally crawled across to the other room and got out of the back door. He could not find any of the others nor hear anything of them, and he called neighbors, who soon arrived and knocked the front door in with an axe and got Mrs. Harrison and two children out. The heat was so intense that they could not go back after the others. Another neighbor had gone in and pulled Joseph Harrison and Mrs. Bailey out of the window, but did not know that Mrs. Bailey's baby was still there, so it was burned to death. The others were carried to a neighboring house, where Harrison's youngest child died about eleven A.M. Saturday. Joseph Harrison and his other child have since died. The other injured ones are still alive, but the doctors have little hope of Mrs. Harrison's recovery.
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