The Enterprise, Harlem, MT, 17 Aug 1916
Two Die in School House Fire
At 1 a.m. Sunday morning as the dance being held in the new Snake Creek school house, 28 miles north of Hinsdale, was in full sway with a large crowd enjoying the fun, a kerosene stove being used to cook coffee exploded and turned the fun makers into a band of mourners.
The dead: Fred Svathein and Mrs. Tom Pritchard
Mrs. Tom Pritchard and a 6-year-old boy, Fred Svathein, were dead and their charred bodies burned beyond recognition when taken from the ashes of the building after the fire was over.
Eight others were badly burned and it is doubtful if there will not be at least one and possibly more deaths from the severe burns received. Scarcely an occupant of the school house escaped without some kind of burn or scratch, including some injuries received in the mad rush to get out of the building. The stove that did the damage was set in the doorway of the building and when the fatal explosion occurred, there was a mad rush for the windows in the rear of the building where the crowd piled through and some were jammed and burned as the flames swept through the crowded mass going through the three openings. Those who were most severly burned were dragged from under the windows, exhausted and unconscious, by those still lucky enough to get out alive and slightly burned. Alfred Johnson, son of Albert Johnson, is in the most serious condition, and Tom Pritchard, husband of the woman burned to death, and the Pritchard's year and a half old baby, who are in dangerous conditions from the terrible scorching received.
The funeral of the Pritchard woman and the Svatheim boy were held together Tuesday afternoon from Hinsdale.
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Parents: Seymour Moses Spencer, 1848-1926, and Lillian H. (Burbank) Spencer, 1860-1934
Two Die in School House Fire
At 1 a.m. Sunday morning as the dance being held in the new Snake Creek school house, 28 miles north of Hinsdale, was in full sway with a large crowd enjoying the fun, a kerosene stove being used to cook coffee exploded and turned the fun makers into a band of mourners.
The dead: Fred Svathein and Mrs. Tom Pritchard
Mrs. Tom Pritchard and a 6-year-old boy, Fred Svathein, were dead and their charred bodies burned beyond recognition when taken from the ashes of the building after the fire was over.
Eight others were badly burned and it is doubtful if there will not be at least one and possibly more deaths from the severe burns received. Scarcely an occupant of the school house escaped without some kind of burn or scratch, including some injuries received in the mad rush to get out of the building. The stove that did the damage was set in the doorway of the building and when the fatal explosion occurred, there was a mad rush for the windows in the rear of the building where the crowd piled through and some were jammed and burned as the flames swept through the crowded mass going through the three openings. Those who were most severly burned were dragged from under the windows, exhausted and unconscious, by those still lucky enough to get out alive and slightly burned. Alfred Johnson, son of Albert Johnson, is in the most serious condition, and Tom Pritchard, husband of the woman burned to death, and the Pritchard's year and a half old baby, who are in dangerous conditions from the terrible scorching received.
The funeral of the Pritchard woman and the Svatheim boy were held together Tuesday afternoon from Hinsdale.
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Parents: Seymour Moses Spencer, 1848-1926, and Lillian H. (Burbank) Spencer, 1860-1934
The Enterprise, Harlem, MT, 17 Aug 1916
Two Die in School House Fire
At 1 a.m. Sunday morning as the dance being held in the new Snake Creek school house, 28 miles north of Hinsdale, was in full sway with a large crowd enjoying the fun, a kerosene stove being used to cook coffee exploded and turned the fun makers into a band of mourners.
The dead: Fred Svathein and Mrs. Tom Pritchard
Mrs. Tom Pritchard and a 6-year-old boy, Fred Svathein, were dead and their charred bodies burned beyond recognition when taken from the ashes of the building after the fire was over.
Eight others were badly burned and it is doubtful if there will not be at least one and possibly more deaths from the severe burns received. Scarcely an occupant of the school house escaped without some kind of burn or scratch, including some injuries received in the mad rush to get out of the building. The stove that did the damage was set in the doorway of the building and when the fatal explosion occurred, there was a mad rush for the windows in the rear of the building where the crowd piled through and some were jammed and burned as the flames swept through the crowded mass going through the three openings. Those who were most severly burned were dragged from under the windows, exhausted and unconscious, by those still lucky enough to get out alive and slightly burned. Alfred Johnson, son of Albert Johnson, is in the most serious condition, and Tom Pritchard, husband of the woman burned to death, and the Pritchard's year and a half old baby, who are in dangerous conditions from the terrible scorching received.
The funeral of the Pritchard woman and the Svatheim boy were held together Tuesday afternoon from Hinsdale.
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Parents: Seymour Moses Spencer, 1848-1926, and Lillian H. (Burbank) Spencer, 1860-1934
Two Die in School House Fire
At 1 a.m. Sunday morning as the dance being held in the new Snake Creek school house, 28 miles north of Hinsdale, was in full sway with a large crowd enjoying the fun, a kerosene stove being used to cook coffee exploded and turned the fun makers into a band of mourners.
The dead: Fred Svathein and Mrs. Tom Pritchard
Mrs. Tom Pritchard and a 6-year-old boy, Fred Svathein, were dead and their charred bodies burned beyond recognition when taken from the ashes of the building after the fire was over.
Eight others were badly burned and it is doubtful if there will not be at least one and possibly more deaths from the severe burns received. Scarcely an occupant of the school house escaped without some kind of burn or scratch, including some injuries received in the mad rush to get out of the building. The stove that did the damage was set in the doorway of the building and when the fatal explosion occurred, there was a mad rush for the windows in the rear of the building where the crowd piled through and some were jammed and burned as the flames swept through the crowded mass going through the three openings. Those who were most severly burned were dragged from under the windows, exhausted and unconscious, by those still lucky enough to get out alive and slightly burned. Alfred Johnson, son of Albert Johnson, is in the most serious condition, and Tom Pritchard, husband of the woman burned to death, and the Pritchard's year and a half old baby, who are in dangerous conditions from the terrible scorching received.
The funeral of the Pritchard woman and the Svatheim boy were held together Tuesday afternoon from Hinsdale.
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Parents: Seymour Moses Spencer, 1848-1926, and Lillian H. (Burbank) Spencer, 1860-1934
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