Millard County Chronicle | 1911-05-25 | Page 5 | Five Burned to Death.

j Five Burned to Death. L'tlca, Kan. Five daughters of Mr, and Mrs. Harvey Itoach, ranging In age from seven to sixteen years, were burned to death Sunday night In a fire which started in the Houch restaurant The pannts were badly burned. The mother of the girls filled a lamp with gasoline by mistake. Preparatory to ascending to the second floor, where her daughters wire asleep, nhe applied a match to the lamp. An explosion fob lowed, the fire being co:iimuuleated to a two-gullon can if gasoline, sending a burst of flam a up the narrow stair way to the children's bid room.