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6-erothers (Continued From Page One) on fire but I could hear the chil- dren screaming and crying inside. ~en it was quiet." The mother said, "I would feel a little better if I could have got one of the babies out. I don't know how it &tarted. Maybe the boya hung their clothes too close to the fire to dry." A natural-gas stove wu left burning at night, she said, to warm the upstairs. "There were no matches in the house. I left the children all last summer when I worked in Brant- ford an.d their father went to To- 1 ronto, and nothing happened," Mrs. Henry sobbed. Wakened Others "Marvin did his best. His feet were scorched from running across the hot floor to wake the othel'II. He said the Dutchman (Arth.ur Crawford) had the baby in hill arms. He doesn't know why the rest didn't follow him through the window." The cousin waa nicknamed "Dutchman" when he attended school on the reserve. In the hospital today MarviJ\ re- lated how he awakened "because the house felt hot," opened the door and saw the downstairs on fire. He awakened his brothers, 11lstera and cousin. Reached Baby "They got scared and went un- . der the bed. I had the baby in my arms. I WU going to jump with her. When they started to scream I gave her to the Dutchman and told them to follow me out," he related. "They didn't come but I beard them screaming through the win· dow." The children apparently went down the stairs itU1tead, for R.C.M.P. officers found the charred remains of the little bodies in a heap where the ifoot of the stairs had been. To1ally Destroyed . There was not a piece of timber left on the foundation, and embers had been carried l50 feet by the wind. The twisted remains of a baby buggy, stove, washing ma- chine and bicycle could be see!ll amongst the debris. Mrs. Henry had been raised in this home for it had been built b her father. The bodies are at the Styres fu- neral home In Oh11weken. The Brantford fire departmen received no alarm and did not know of the . tragedy untll hours later. Roads were almost impass able and many cars were stuck One reported hired a tractor to 'reach the scene when his car w mired. ·