PERISHED IN THE FLAMES
Idaho Man Meets Death While
Trying to Save Children.
Boise, Ida. – Charles A. Justus and three children of his sister, Mrs. Samuel Moudy, were burned to death at the family homestead four miles east of Middleton, Wednesday night. The parents were in a hospital at Boise,where Mrs.
Moudy had recently submitted to an operation. Justus remained with the seven children. When the house was found to be on fire the four older children escaped. Justus went into the burning building to rescue the younger ones, aged 3, 5 and 8 years. Soon afterward a shot was heard and neither Justus nor the children were seen alive. The next morning their charred bodies were found in the ruins. Mr. Moudy says a loaded rifle was kept hanging under the stairs, and he believes that the heat caused the gun to explode and shoot Justus. The dead man was 30 years of age.
*The Star Valley Independent, Afton, WY, October 19, 1906
Idaho Man Meets Death While
Trying to Save Children.
Boise, Ida. – Charles A. Justus and three children of his sister, Mrs. Samuel Moudy, were burned to death at the family homestead four miles east of Middleton, Wednesday night. The parents were in a hospital at Boise,where Mrs.
Moudy had recently submitted to an operation. Justus remained with the seven children. When the house was found to be on fire the four older children escaped. Justus went into the burning building to rescue the younger ones, aged 3, 5 and 8 years. Soon afterward a shot was heard and neither Justus nor the children were seen alive. The next morning their charred bodies were found in the ruins. Mr. Moudy says a loaded rifle was kept hanging under the stairs, and he believes that the heat caused the gun to explode and shoot Justus. The dead man was 30 years of age.
*The Star Valley Independent, Afton, WY, October 19, 1906
PERISHED IN THE FLAMES
Idaho Man Meets Death While
Trying to Save Children.
Boise, Ida. – Charles A. Justus and three children of his sister, Mrs. Samuel Moudy, were burned to death at the family homestead four miles east of Middleton, Wednesday night. The parents were in a hospital at Boise,where Mrs.
Moudy had recently submitted to an operation. Justus remained with the seven children. When the house was found to be on fire the four older children escaped. Justus went into the burning building to rescue the younger ones, aged 3, 5 and 8 years. Soon afterward a shot was heard and neither Justus nor the children were seen alive. The next morning their charred bodies were found in the ruins. Mr. Moudy says a loaded rifle was kept hanging under the stairs, and he believes that the heat caused the gun to explode and shoot Justus. The dead man was 30 years of age.
*The Star Valley Independent, Afton, WY, October 19, 1906
Idaho Man Meets Death While
Trying to Save Children.
Boise, Ida. – Charles A. Justus and three children of his sister, Mrs. Samuel Moudy, were burned to death at the family homestead four miles east of Middleton, Wednesday night. The parents were in a hospital at Boise,where Mrs.
Moudy had recently submitted to an operation. Justus remained with the seven children. When the house was found to be on fire the four older children escaped. Justus went into the burning building to rescue the younger ones, aged 3, 5 and 8 years. Soon afterward a shot was heard and neither Justus nor the children were seen alive. The next morning their charred bodies were found in the ruins. Mr. Moudy says a loaded rifle was kept hanging under the stairs, and he believes that the heat caused the gun to explode and shoot Justus. The dead man was 30 years of age.
*The Star Valley Independent, Afton, WY, October 19, 1906
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