Show Kansas Hit by j i Violent Deaths Fires Automobiles and Murders 1 Take Toll of Lives at El EI Dorado El EI Dorado When will the end come That Is what residents of this ordinarily peaceful community are askine each cach other as the toll of sudden and violent deaths mounts almost d daily SInce Janu January ry I 1 31 persons In thE El EI Dorado community have met sudden sud gud den death Fourteen of those who have ha per were burned to death In theIr homes or fell Into scalding water Motor car accidents have e claimed five others and mishaps of other kInds have bave claimed the remainder Of at the 14 who have succumbed as the result of oC fire 12 perished In burning burn burn- Ing homes A tire that took the lives of five persons per per- sons early this year at White station eight miles southwest of here bere This blaze was the forerunner of the string of tragedies In this tire fire Harry Miller and anel his three children Opal aim I Raymond Hamond and Bernice were burned beyond recognition Mrs Minnie Mil MuI ler the mother was burned so badly that she died a few weeks later two other children also were burned but recovered Asleep In Their Home At the time this tire fire occurred the Millers were asleep In theIr home Haymond aged eIght years had arisen to start the kitchen fire Whether he be used kerosene was never learned But shortly after he touched a match mutch to the fuel tuel the house was In flames Ray Hay mind mond was trapped on the second floor of the home with the others and per per- Ish d. d He ran to warn them that the place was In flames The second holocaust occurred 20 I miles northwest of El EI the nIght of April 20 when Mr 1 and Mrs 1 Oberst well known G German rwan farmers of North Butler county and aoi their live younger children Herbert Edith Hugh Ralph and Dorothy per per- Owen se the only survivor sore sur ot of the family Is beIng held beld at atthe atthe the county jaIl pending trial on a charge of murder In the first degree Owen has confessed that he be first shot and killed the other members ot of the family with a 22 caliber rifle and then set Ore fire to the home borne after pourIng pour pour- lag Ing oil on the kItchen floor loor Owen committed the murders be told officers because he be was mad at athis athis his father The latter a well well-to-do farmer had refused Owen permission to use the family motor car when the youth had hau dates Owen never drove the car except In the daytIme and then when his father was with him For two wee weeks s after the murders Owen defied county to fasten ui the crime on hIm Finally be broke down and ond confessed Asked why he be dId It lie he said he wanted to clean cleon up the whole affaIr Ovens vens confession dId not go Into the killIngs In detaIl He merely says he be shot one member ot of the famIly and then another lIe He refuses to say what the other members memo mem- bers of the family were doing when he was kIlling them one at a 0 time tIlDe A search of the ruins revealed the badly charred bodies of s six vIctIms In that part ot of the house bouse where the kitchen was located The body of the seventh person believed helleved to he be that ot of the mother was found In the dIn lag Ing room after the blaze Scalded to Death Robert nobert aged eIght months was the youngest person ot of the 14 who have bave lost their lives lI from burns so far thIs year The youngster while playing on the floor at his horne home fell Into some scaldIng water I Wilson son aged live five years was burned morning while e asleep to death late one fit at Sall Sallyards In the home ot of her bel parents yards east ot of here Two vo other drel dreI narrowly escaped The mot mother er was In 10 the rhe garden working Blanche Moore LewIs Mrs Irs Gather Esther i I and Fred Wright dropped dead from heart heart disease disease- WillIam F F. F when he was as Instantly killed head by B a large was strut on the bridge timber Dave e Corfman farm wh when n a fall luy huy Vas fatally Injured tug Ing e struck him during daring n a hl high 11 windstorm harles Cannon farmer farmel died 18 is f the r result or II rl we vou J olin Jahn Belt end tiny Hay Allen Alien were US- US lh while nt at work lIrk In on oil tank Mrs Js tUlY Lucy J Sorter was fatally f 1 J It Injured In a toll fall nr at her lieI home when he leaped from froma u a wagon on which lie waS riding and driving a 11 team ot of horses after the latter frightened d at n a passing pass pass- In ing motor cur car nu Russell sell was wa killed rl instantly when hen his clothing way was caught In soane some machinery machinery In the oU oil oilfields fields nelds |