The following news article describes a fire that burned the stable at Martin Flanigan's farm, where one child was killed, and according to the story, the other was saved. I surmise that the two young grand-children on this monument were the two Flanigan children described in this article.
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A distressing calamity, the result of a want of judgement in setting out a prairie fire happened last Sunday, twelve miles east of the city. A farmer named Sam Baker set fire to the grass on his place, and the wind being high, the flames spread rapidly and soon got beyond control. It spread from Baker's place to Mr. Laud's; from this place the flames jumped the wide fire guard that Mr. Flanigan had around his place. The stables and stacks of the latter were near the road, and the strong, hot breath of the flames swept fire bands fully a hundred yards across the intervening plowed ground, igniting the stacks and soon after the stables.
Two of Mr. Flanigan's children were playing in the stable at the time. As soon as the fire was discovered, Mrs. Flanigan rushed to the rescue of the little ones. Before she got to the stable it was almost enveloped in flames. By great personal risk, and after being severely burnt she rescued one of her little darlings. The other one was consumed in the cruel flames. The family are almost heart-broken under the terrible affliction. We did not get an estimate of the damage done to property.
(Published in The Wichita Weekly Beacon, Wednesday, March 27, 1878, Page 5)
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A distressing calamity, the result of a want of judgement in setting out a prairie fire happened last Sunday, twelve miles east of the city. A farmer named Sam Baker set fire to the grass on his place, and the wind being high, the flames spread rapidly and soon got beyond control. It spread from Baker's place to Mr. Laud's; from this place the flames jumped the wide fire guard that Mr. Flanigan had around his place. The stables and stacks of the latter were near the road, and the strong, hot breath of the flames swept fire bands fully a hundred yards across the intervening plowed ground, igniting the stacks and soon after the stables.
Two of Mr. Flanigan's children were playing in the stable at the time. As soon as the fire was discovered, Mrs. Flanigan rushed to the rescue of the little ones. Before she got to the stable it was almost enveloped in flames. By great personal risk, and after being severely burnt she rescued one of her little darlings. The other one was consumed in the cruel flames. The family are almost heart-broken under the terrible affliction. We did not get an estimate of the damage done to property.
(Published in The Wichita Weekly Beacon, Wednesday, March 27, 1878, Page 5)
The following news article describes a fire that burned the stable at Martin Flanigan's farm, where one child was killed, and according to the story, the other was saved. I surmise that the two young grand-children on this monument were the two Flanigan children described in this article.
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A distressing calamity, the result of a want of judgement in setting out a prairie fire happened last Sunday, twelve miles east of the city. A farmer named Sam Baker set fire to the grass on his place, and the wind being high, the flames spread rapidly and soon got beyond control. It spread from Baker's place to Mr. Laud's; from this place the flames jumped the wide fire guard that Mr. Flanigan had around his place. The stables and stacks of the latter were near the road, and the strong, hot breath of the flames swept fire bands fully a hundred yards across the intervening plowed ground, igniting the stacks and soon after the stables.
Two of Mr. Flanigan's children were playing in the stable at the time. As soon as the fire was discovered, Mrs. Flanigan rushed to the rescue of the little ones. Before she got to the stable it was almost enveloped in flames. By great personal risk, and after being severely burnt she rescued one of her little darlings. The other one was consumed in the cruel flames. The family are almost heart-broken under the terrible affliction. We did not get an estimate of the damage done to property.
(Published in The Wichita Weekly Beacon, Wednesday, March 27, 1878, Page 5)
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A distressing calamity, the result of a want of judgement in setting out a prairie fire happened last Sunday, twelve miles east of the city. A farmer named Sam Baker set fire to the grass on his place, and the wind being high, the flames spread rapidly and soon got beyond control. It spread from Baker's place to Mr. Laud's; from this place the flames jumped the wide fire guard that Mr. Flanigan had around his place. The stables and stacks of the latter were near the road, and the strong, hot breath of the flames swept fire bands fully a hundred yards across the intervening plowed ground, igniting the stacks and soon after the stables.
Two of Mr. Flanigan's children were playing in the stable at the time. As soon as the fire was discovered, Mrs. Flanigan rushed to the rescue of the little ones. Before she got to the stable it was almost enveloped in flames. By great personal risk, and after being severely burnt she rescued one of her little darlings. The other one was consumed in the cruel flames. The family are almost heart-broken under the terrible affliction. We did not get an estimate of the damage done to property.
(Published in The Wichita Weekly Beacon, Wednesday, March 27, 1878, Page 5)
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