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Show Only Children .... Trailer Blaze jtills LAPOINT This stunned community had completed funeral arrangements today for services in honor of the only two children chil-dren of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Christensen, who were burned to death in a trailer Monday afternoon approximately 35 feet from the family home. Bishop Lee Walker of the Lapoint LD,S Ward conducted services in the chapel here. " victims of the tragic blaze were Carol Emma Christensen. 4-year-old daughter, and her 2-year-old brother, Clarence Timothy Tim-othy Christensen. Their pet dog also died with his tiny master in the inferno. The fire was first discovered at about 2:45 p. m. It was believed the children had been playing with matches and set fire to paper in the front of the trailer. According to Sheriff H. M. Snyder and County Attorney Whitney Hammond of Uintah County, who investigated the tragedy, the first person to snot the fire was Julius P. leBarron, who was mowing hay a quarter of a mile east of the Christensen Christen-sen home. He was joined by Calvin Hackford, who in turn notified ' the mother who was visiting with her sister, Mrs. Una Holmes, in a nearby house, unaware un-aware of the flames. The father fath-er was employed on a road construction job at the time of the tragedy. Neighbors who attempted to rescue the children from the burning trailer were driven back by the flames, whicn blocked the doorway. Mr. Hackford saw the girl lying on a bed in the trailer and attempted to gain entry by breaking a window, but was forced to retreat in the face of searing flames. ' Mrs. Holmes explained that the youngsters were not allowed to go in the trailer and that a playhouse had been built for them in a nearby shed. She added that "clothes were stored in the trailer as were paint brush cleaner and other inflammables, but the children I continued to use the trailer as a playhouse on occasion. Mrs. Holmes said that her other sister had lost two children chil-dren in a trailer house blaze two years ago at Price. Mrs. Christensen s u f f er e d shock and was treated by a Roosevelt physician. Carol Emma was born March ' 13, 1948, and Clarence Timothy Christensen was born July 16, 1949, children of Clarence and Avis Gardner Christensen. They were born at Farm Creek. Survivors include the parents and four grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elvie Christensen and Mr. and Mrs. Jans Christensen, all of Lapoint, and two great-grandmothers, Mrs. Christina Christensen, Chris-tensen, Whiterocks, and Mrs. Emma Wiseman, Price. Burial was in the cemetery at Farm Creek under direction of the Olpin Mortuary. |