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Show MET HORRIBLE DEATH. Woman and Child Burned to Crisp After Going Over Precipice. Dalhart, Tex. Plunging ono hundred hun-dred feet to tho bottom of Blanco canyon, can-yon, and then burnod to a crisp amid tho debris of a wogan, was tho fato of Mrs. S. R. Break, a widow, and her 1-ycar-old child, near tho llttlo plains town of Floydada. Mrs. Break was moving across tho country In a wagon loaded with hor housohold goods, and not bolng an export ex-port driver, sho lot tho team get too closo to tho brink of tho canyon. At" this moment hor dog ran yelping down the road and frightened tho horses. In reining them up too quickly, tho woman ' causod the frlghtouen horses to rear and back tho heavy wagon vor tho precipice. As tho wagon, with Its helpless passengers, plunged backward over tho abyss, a hot stovo was overturned, and boforo tho struggling strug-gling human beings nnd horses could extricate thomsolvoa from tho wreckage, wreck-age, tho whole mass was In flamee at the bottom of tho canyon. To add to tho futility or tho woman's wom-an's Btruggjo for llfo, a largo can of gasollno In. tho wagon exploded uni hastened tho destruction by llamos. , -ATtS . "I T- - --VV.-. ... V Ji ' |