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Show SIX IN FAMILY LOST! BLAZE Ohio Farmer Pours Coal Oil Into Stove to Start the Fire WASHINGTON COT'RT HOUSE. H Ohio, Jan. 14. Six members of the I family of James Adklns, fourteen miles north of here, were burned to death I Sunday when fire destroyed their j home. Adklns was fatally burned. Tho fire followed the explosion of a coal stove Into which Adklns poured korosone onto hot coals In an effort to start It quickly. Th dead arc: Mr?. James Adklns, 30. Grace Adklns, 14, Ueona Adklns 11; Naomlruth Adklns, 4, Freeda Adklns, Ad-klns, weeks; "Walter Bennett. 70. uncle un-cle of Mrs. Adklns. When Mr. Adklns poured the kerosene kero-sene Into the stove, tho burning ail was thrown allover the room. Mrs. Adklns and her baby In a bed In one j corner, wore enveloped In flames. The three younger children atvd Mr. Bennett were on the second floor. Ad- , kins, after running from the building. rolled I nthe mud and tlo n ran half a I mile to a neighbor Excepting his shirt f collar, all wf his clothing was burned Wehn help arrived, the dwelling was I a mass of smouldering ombera. Ad-'j kins Is In a serious condition. i |