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Show Blanche Eohne, 18-months-old Daughter of Arthur Bohne, Perishes in Flames VAIN EFFORT TO RESCUE Baby Left Asleep on Couch by Parents, .Who .Return .Too Late Family is Homeless. Pleasant Green, July 7. Little Blanche Bohne, 18 mouths old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bohne, was burned to death Sunday night about 9 o'clock when the Bohne Boh-ne home burned to the ground. Mr. and Mrs. Bohne with their child had been out for a buggy vide in the evening. When they returned the mother took the child into the house and the father went out to unhitch un-hitch the horse. The baby was asleep and the mother laid it tenderly tender-ly on a coutch iu the kitchen. She lighted a lamp and set it on a milk safe near the couch where the sleeping sleep-ing iurant lay. The father called from the yard and asked his wife to come out and shut up the chickens for the night while he did other chores. Mrs. Bohne left the child asleep, the lamp burning and went to comply with her husband's rquest. Their attention was engrossed with what they were doing until they turned to go back to the house together. to-gether. It was then they beheld their home iu flames. The fire was raging fiercely directly from that portion por-tion of the house where the child had been left. The parents, realizing the terrible situation, ran to the rescue. TRIES TO SAVE CHILD. So intense was the heat that it w as impossible to gain entrance through the door and the father entered, at the risk of his owu life, through the ; kitchen window. Amid the smoke , and flames, blinded by the heat and '. almost suffocating, he essayed to : raise his child from the burning cot. His hands encountered a heavy ob ject, which upon investigation, proved to be the baby's own rocking horse, which had fallen, an instrument instru-ment of death through the burning ceiling from the room above. "When he suceeded in throwing the obstruc-' obstruc-' tion to one side and carried his child to the window through which he handed it to the frantic mother, death had claimed the little one already The blow from the falling rocking-horsewould rocking-horsewould probably have resulted fatally and in addition the burns on the little body were so severe that death would have come from that source regardless of any other. .The father escaped but the house burned to the ground. The little family is " homeless, but kind neighbors have . furnished shelter and food until the father can make plans to rebuild. Just how the house caught on fire . will probably never be known, but it ' is supposed that a curtain from the i window caught fire in the flame of ) the lamp, or that the lamp in some way fell from the safe, setting fire to n, i,,i ,.ir,n.ns where the sloping child lay. Mr. and Mrs. Bohne are well respected res-pected and prominent citizens ol !' this place. The child's body was burned so 1 badly that it was necessary to bandage ban-dage the flesh in order to dress the little one for burial. The house and all its contents were , destroyed. The remains of the little infant were brought lo Fairvicw for burial. The speaker:; at the funeral were Lewis 11. Larson, Bishop II. P. Han- sen and Howard Rigby. A solo was I rendered by Bishop Hansen, and music mu-sic by the choir. Many beautiful i, flowers were given by friends who at tended the services. The Bohne family mentioned m the above dispatch were residents ofMt. Pleasant for many years and y have many friends and relatives here , at the present time. They have the t' sympathy of all who are acquainted with the awful experience through which they have just passed. |