| Show THE THATCHER CREMATION BurnIng to Death of the five Children of Widow Till The heart II lit at his or of Slot W 5 a Vernier Mali The mOlt terrible that hu han hur ever r this valler occurred at t trIda June about abouL when d young II lives were wre des troyd b fir Mt Collier IL a widow who lived In A small amaH lumber um r hou house on Main lIt iut her nYe fIve children to 10 bed lest nd went to the home ot of lion Hon W lv W v Pace Pac where she b was In Into to cook for tor th the The Tb children WIre all before Mrs 1111 C left anti the house houle closed up About S II Richard Layton Larton wa was tassin and noticed the house houM on fire lie He run ran to It kicked In the th door and at attempted t tempted to rescue the children but when the door wu brek n the flames out In inch volumes that an entrance was wu ny Ity this time a lere crowd had bad gathered 1 but i could do nothing but helplessly look on the whole structure wa was a 1 roaring ma hess of flames In fact when the th nr fire wee was first discovered the whole In inside ld ot of the th house must mut hAve ben been R a tea ea ot of fire and the children dead When the rescuer could Bet Into the ruins a terrible met Inet their iTAI gaze There lay the charred remains of three little girls where they hall had laid their head beads on their they had not moved The reo re remains mains main of the two boys boYI wr were found near the door whIch offer otten the on only I lion as a to how the fire originated The flesh was wa burned away entirely and Portion of f the bones bonel were consumed i I One Orie of 01 the children could be It lied had turned on its It fare face and covered It Its hud head with the which preserved the face tace to some Melt or Of the other chill chI dren I almost consumed The Th 11 W Sc 41 gl W n the II 1 that t th the i have bave lit hit lita hita a mato match I f for r the p ole ot getting a 14 drInk hall IgnIted some paper near the water bucket stood tood This probablY ac accounts for tor the bodies ot of the boys boYI bwl found away from the tho bed The children ranted ranked from 3 to 12 11 years year of Arizona Guar dlan |
