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Show I ! ; THREE BABES DIE WHEN HOME BURNS iH I Parents Attend Church; Children H Perish When Lamp m Explodes bbbbbbV M I'rovo, March 21 . Thrco children B vjoro burned to death In bed tonight B when nro dcHtroyed thq Hiding homo B on I'rovo bunch. Two escaped In tiiolr night clotlicH. Tlin .flro la bo- ljeved to liavo started from a koro fl , miiu lamp, Mr. and Mrs. Christian M Hiding wero nt ovonlng Bcrvlccs In tlio Grand Vluw ward chapel when their homo burned. Shortly after f o'c'ock thoy returned to whoro I there homo lindbcen, thoro to bo c'onfrontod by tho horror of dcsoln- ' lion thnt tho flnmoa had wrought. The mother was almost Insane B with grief and would havo rushed ', ( Into the smoldering ruins had sho j Hot been prevented. Shu and tho HI two children who had escaped from W tho burning houso wcro cared for H nt tho home of n neighboring family while tho fathor watched with tho ) crowd until tho ruins should cool' so fl thnt tho bodies of tho children could bo recovered. They wcro found In BIB , tlio bed, charred beyond recognition. BPJ j Tho Hvo children wero put to bod j before tho parents loft to attend tho BH services In tho ward chnpcl nt 7 Jl o'clock. Tho ,lamp was left burning In tho room whoro tlio threo small- BBJ or children slept. Starting thoro, BBJ 1 the II ro progressed to tho room whoro M ! tho two children slopt. Tho hunt BBVl aroused them to their dnnger nud Hj they rushed out, tho building, of j: I frnmo construction, being nlrcndy In BBS! llnmcs. Tho children burned woro J: Thursn, aged C; Lucy, aged 4, and BBS' Alum, aged 2. Dr. A. J. Stewart BHB first of tho neighbors to nrrlvo nt HBi i tho burning home, said that tlio clill HBJ lrcn must hnve been saved from tho BHB llnmcs by asphyxiation. Tho children BHBt who escaped -woro Lister, aged 9, B and Vldell, aged 11. BHBj i Dr. Stewart bocamo awnro or tho BHBj llro nt about 9 o'c'ock, his children BHBj. calling his attention to It. Ho rnu BHBj , to tho Kidding homo, only to find HHB that tho llnmos had douo their work. HHB ' The two older children wcro by tho HHB roadsldo' In front of tho burning HHB home, crying and screaming for help. HHB Nulghbors quickly collected and soma HHB ono telephoned to Flro Chief Joseph HHB W. Loveless of I'rovo. Nothing HHB. could be dono to save olthor tho lives HHB of tho children or tho houso, howov- BHH or. If tho llro had been discovered HHB earlier tho saving of tho houso must HHB hnvo boon practically Impossible, for BHH tho reason that thoro lH no water HHB supply In tho vicinity other than by BHH Irrigation ditches. Chief Loveless) HHB' went to tho scenu of tho tragedy In BHH an automobile only to And tho houso BHH r. pllo of glowing ruins surrounded by BBHj; a trowd of helplesg neighbors. |