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» A r VL I L\UES.I ht liltt/e *if iuml tj ttornlng Ciaiitu Two\ id l iif.2a1cttsTii tThe alarm of tire walt; brought to C entra! station at 2 20 Sunday morning by a small negro bov. The firemen eoonO wreached the .vpot, 717 Valley street, one of-the houses in the range just ea-t of he reedri' k ln»ue Smoke wa- coming ~ «u: and a group of excited people were seeknorcotiancc. The firemen dashed the door in and groping about in the ♦ smoke put out what little fire was to he found with the Babcock extinguisher. ( f Lying prone upon the lloor were two | woHB**n, Mrs. Ward and her daughter Lj Itosa, both well know?: in this town, j t| 1 he cider woman was ^imply a ghastly, !blackened corpse without a shred of i clothing (?r a iiude hair on her headremaining Her body altno-t blocked i *the door, lying upon the luck with;1 arms and limb?- draw n up as the agony of t j i th left them. The younger woman j ?was *.!ivt. and screaming with the awful j ipain of b irns which had divested her lt;*f j 1sinearh all her clothing and scorched tier-kin to h blister over most of her body, rtu i »*n -c lt;! het mother wa- left lying | { where it was found, aw aiting the coroner. ?1I 1The living woman was taken to the house J J of Mrs Patrick t’ov adjoining, where the t few |K?o[le present attempted to do some ! -thi rir to relieve bei pain until a doctor J1 came. The ylt; ung woman was after- j wardlt; taken to Saint Francis hospital, f where she lt;Le I at eleven o’clock Sun* |day evening. jA - ne ;r!y as e mid be U arned the two j,xvcnu n were alone in their dwelling. !-and frotu the accounts of the ij nt'i ?lihi!, wore both intoxicated,i a condition in which, it seems, the\ were frequently found ltosa was lyiug in bed smoking and in this manner -et her !clothing afire. Her screams foi her mother to come tlt;» her assistance were heard i, pic people in adjoining houses, win* | aid little heed, thinking they c ame f om a common hr.cwl..AVhen lier motherdid mu It lie! she herself fell a victim, he:own *lothing catching lire- and, in her; |,t.sj,| „.?!* shlt; burned to death before help came while ltosa was luon fortunate, although the result of her injuriesnimud now be known.M:s. Ward was ■ widow, the mother U,f twos us Frank an- M he and wa-sister to M-s. Amos Bailey, whose husband - proprietor of the Burlington j in use. Both tin- women lived alone in j the rooms in which the tragedy occurredIt mav be- noted a- a singular fac t that j* * % neither the bedding nor anything elseabout the place was injured by theflame-. The two women w.re the onlt♦sufferers.An inquest was held Monday after noon at Unterkircher undertaking rooms,the jury comprising John backbauer. Dr. .T. I' Kastcr and T J. Copp, foreman The verdict rendered pronounced their jdeath to have been caused by tire, their i clothing taking Tire from causes to thejurors unknown.The funeral wa* held V\ edntsday morn
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Burlington Weekly Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa, US
Thu, Feb 17, 1887
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