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Show B01ftNEtTOT)EATHL Tha Uorrlble Fata that Overtook tha Children of David Compter. At 11 o'clock yesterday morning in the bunk of a hospital ward Mary and David Gempler, aged respectively 0 and 8 years, departed this life In most hor-ble hor-ble convulsions. The misfortune to which these two young lives were sacriticod is one of shocking particulars. It was shortly after the last edition of Tub Times had gone iuto the haunts of the daily reader that an alarm of fire was turned in that summoned the department to a dwelling dwell-ing on I street, between Sixth and Seventh.' The tickle blaze had been put out before their arrival, not, how. ever, until it had planted the black seal of death on the children. Mr. and Mra. David Gempler, two untutored Scandinavians, Scandi-navians, had gone out In the afternoon, leaving the house to the custody of the children. Through some Ill-fated teaohlng, Mary, aged 9, proceeded to light a tire, and drenching the kindling in kerosene, was about to carry the can back to a place of safety, when from its narrow neck burst a blade of flame and then followed an explosion that soattered sheets of burning fluid everywhere. every-where. Mary, like a ball of fire ran into the yard, while tho infant David groped his way to the window and boating on lis panes cried for relief. In the meantime T. F. Thomas, jr., had wrapped a blutiket around Mary, wnile at tlio same time Mrs. Willnrd Hurt broke Into the window and dragged the form of the boy frjnm the furnace. Doctors were summoned whereupon the unfortunate babcrf were removed to the Deseret hospital! whore they re. ceived attention until death conio to their relief. - |