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Show BURNED TO DEATH. A sad fatality occurred on Saturday evening at the Pleasant Valley coal mines operated by Messers. D. and N.I. Williams. The house of Ephraim Davis, blacksmith for the operators, took fire about 6:30 p.m. and two of his children, a boy and a girl aged five and three years respectively, were burned to death. The building was utterly consumed. The mother with her children had been out visiting, and, on returning in the evening, called at a neighbor's a short distance from her own house. Her little son ran home ahead, and was followed a little later by his sister. He attempted to light a fire in the stove, and for that purpose used coal oil from a can containing nearly five gallons. The supposition is that the can exploded, and that the little girl; arriving on the scene about the time of the accident, shared the horrible fate of her brother. Mrs. Davis was still at her neighbor's when the house was discovered to be on fire. The little boy, it appears, was either rescued or escaped from the burning building, as our correspondent states that he died some two hours after the occurrence. The body of the little girl was not found until this morning. She was burnt to a crisp. - News. Sept. (September) 19. |