Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-02-06 | Page 2 | Nine Negroes Burned to Death; Three Children Lose Lives in Same Way

NINE NEGROES BURNED TO DEATH; THREE CHILDREN LOSE LIVES IN SAME WAY BALTIMORE. Feb. 6. About 3 o'clock this morning an isolated small frame house near the village "of Curtis Bay, in Anne Arundel county, was consumed by fire. In which were burned to death nine colored persons. The only Inmate I who escaped with her life was Ella Webster, a woman, who managed to get to a window and Jumped from the second story to the ground. For a few minutes after striking the ground she was unconscious, uncon-scious, but on recovering made her way to 'neighboring houses and gave the alarm. When the neighbors arrived the house was a pile of blazing and smoking smok-ing debris, and when the bodies- were recovered nothing but the charred bone of the victims were left. ti BIG TIMBER, Mont.. Feb. . The three young children of J. B. Cypher, all girls, aged one, three and five years, were burned to death in their home, ) six miles south of here, yester- day afternoon. It appears their " father and mother were both ab- sent, leaving the little ones alone. When the parents re- turned they found the house In ruins. It Is supposed the chil-: dren were playing with matchee. According to the statement of the survivor, the fire was caused by one of the younger children, who got up to stir the fire In the chimney-place and accidentally scattered coals on the floor.