St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 15

a a a a a a a a a 0 I Two Children, Woman Killed In Fire The cause of a fire in which two children and an adult died Saturday midnight at 2113 Prather Avenue is being investigated by police. An infant suffered severe burns. Dead are: Mrs. Terry Biship, 22 years old, of the Prather Avenue address. Kimberly Stone, 3, and Melany Stone, 2, daughters of Mr.

and Mrs. Kenneth Stone, 6340 Audrey Avenue, Wellston. Francine Stone, 2 weeks old, is in Cardinal Glennon Hospital with second-degree burns of the body. Mr. and Mrs.

Stone were in Kansas City for the funeral of Mrs. Stone's mother, who died Saturday, police said. They left the children with their friends, the Biships. Awakened by Smoke Biship told police he was awakened by smoke in a rear bedroom. Francine was in a crib in the bedroom.

Mrs. Biship and the two older girls were in the living room. Bishop said he attempted to enter the living room, but was halted by heat and flames. He jumped out a bathroom window, and tried to enter a living burns of the hands. room window, but suffered for assistance attracted neighbors, who attempted to help.

Among them was off-duty Fire Capt. Daniel Rosenau. The captain assisted other firemen in removing the victims. Firemen, including Capt. William Ashby, Rescue Squad 1, administered artificial respiration to Mrs.

Biship before she was taken to Deaconess Hospital. Mrs. Biship, burned over her entire body, died in the hospital. Kimberly Stone died at City Hospital. Melany Stone was pronounced dead at City hospital.

Each suffered third-degree burns of the body. Battalion Chief Harry E. Vierheller, 2723 Bennett Court, Rawleigh T. Shepherd Dies; Boy Scout Leader Funeral services for Rawleigh T. Shepherd, a former St.

Louis area Boy Scout executive, will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Hoffmeister Colonial undertaking establishment, 6464 Chippewa street. Burial will be in New St. Marcus Cemetery. Mr.

Shepherd, who was 91 years old, died yesterday after a heart attack at Presbyterian Home Life for Senior Citizens, a nursing home in Farmington, Mo. He and his wife, Katherine, had been at the home for about four years. Mr. Shepherd, who was from Eldon, came to St. Louis about the turn of the century.

In the early 1 1920s, he became scoutmaster of Troop 29 at the Oak Hill Presbyterian Church. He later became south district commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America and was presented CHILD'S BOOK lies atop debris from a house at 2113 Prather Avenue where three persons died in a fire Saturday night. The cause of the fire is being investigated. (Post- Dispatch Photo by James A. Rackwitz) with the Silver Beaver Award When members of the choir Howard A.

Sitton, 52 years Police said Sitton was with then began shouting for help. in 1933. opened the robe cabinet at Redold, 6437 Alabama Avenue, friends at his clubhouse on Boli- The Fenton Fire Department Mr. Shepherd was president field Methodist Church to preford Beach Road, a half mile dragged the river. Sitton's body of the former Monotype Type- pare for a family night prodrowned yesterday when swim- east of Fenton.

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Louisan Drowns In Meramec River was cut on the right arm by glass. Fireman Griel, 7101 Mardel Avenue, treated for smoke inhalation. Inquiry on Fire Biship was quoted as saying that he had painted the living room, and that three cans of paint and a container of gasoline were in the room. Firemen reported finding the containers intact. Detectives of the arson squad care investigating the blaze, which caused extensive damage to the two-store frame dwelling.

Mr. and Mrs. Stone were notified of the fire by Kansas City police, at the request of St. Louis police. The parents flew to St.

Louis yesterday. MRS. ELIZABETH CLARK, a widow, died last night in a fire home, 7154 Delmar Boulevard, University City. Firemen reported that the bed in the victim's third-floor bedroom was ablaze. Careless smoking was given as a possible cause.

The fire was discovered by a son, Michael, 12, who smelled smoke. Mrs. Clark's four children mother, Mrs. Lillian Steinman, escaped without injury from the second floor. The blaze was confined to the third floor.

Mrs. Clark, 40, was pronounced dead at St. Louis County Hospital. A WOMAN confined to a wheel chair with a broken hip was rescued by firemen yesterday from a fire in her secondfloor apartment at 4152 Ashland Avenue. Firemen David Hodge and John Harvey, Hook and Ladder 21, carried Mrs.

Winifred Stewart down a ladder. After taking Mrs. Stewart, 69, to a neighbor's home, the firemen donned masks and recovered her wheel chair. A fire department spokesman reported the blaze was caused by children playing with matches and gasoline. Damage was extensive.

WASTE MATTER dumped in an oily railroad pit caused a fire yesterday near the old Relay Depot in East St. Louis. Peter Lesaganich, assistant fire chief, saw smoke rising from the pit and ordered two pumpers to the scene. Firemen poured water on the blaze for three hours. Lesaganich warned railroad workers not to dispose of waste in the pit.

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Louis Club of Printing House Craftsmen, a past president of the St. Louis Typographic Association and member of the International Typographical Union. Surviving besides his wife are a son, Thomas L. Shepherd of Cartersville, a grandson, Raymond T. Shepherd, a dent at the University of Chicago; a granddaughter, Mrs.

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