Lexington Intelligencer, October 03, 1913
EARLY MORNING TRAGEDYThree Children of Jesse Alumbaugh Burned to DeathEarly Sunday morning the residence of Jenne Alumbaugh, one mile east of Napoleon, caught fire and was completely consumed. Mrs. Alumbaugh with two children and her sister were sleeping down stairs and three of their eldest children were sleeping up stairs. When the fire awoke the sleepers, the stairway leading to the upper story was enveloped in flames making it impossible to rescue the children from this direction. There was one outside window to the upper story and to this Mrs. Alumbaugh placed a ladder. Two of the children had made their way to this window and rescue seemed easy, but the window could not be raised, and before Mrs. Alumbaugh could make an opening the floor gave way and the little ones were precipitated into the flames below, where rescue was impossible. They were entirely consumed. Mr. Alumbaugh was away hunting at the time. He saw the fire from a distance, surmising that the fire was at his own house, he ran to the scene only to find his home in ashes and no one about. Mrs. Alumbaugh with the two children who were sleeping with her, and her sister, clothed only in their night clothes, had gone to the nearest neighbor some distance away.Mr. Alumbaugh supposed that all had perished until the neighbors his wife had aroused, appeared on the scene. The tragedy is indeed a sad one. The property loss is of little consequence in comparison with the death of the three helpless children. The father and mother are prostrate. The kindly ministration of neighbors and friends is to some extent consoling, but time alone can assuage such grief as theirs must be.
EARLY MORNING TRAGEDYThree Children of Jesse Alumbaugh Burned to DeathEarly Sunday morning the residence of Jenne Alumbaugh, one mile east of Napoleon, caught fire and was completely consumed. Mrs. Alumbaugh with two children and her sister were sleeping down stairs and three of their eldest children were sleeping up stairs. When the fire awoke the sleepers, the stairway leading to the upper story was enveloped in flames making it impossible to rescue the children from this direction. There was one outside window to the upper story and to this Mrs. Alumbaugh placed a ladder. Two of the children had made their way to this window and rescue seemed easy, but the window could not be raised, and before Mrs. Alumbaugh could make an opening the floor gave way and the little ones were precipitated into the flames below, where rescue was impossible. They were entirely consumed. Mr. Alumbaugh was away hunting at the time. He saw the fire from a distance, surmising that the fire was at his own house, he ran to the scene only to find his home in ashes and no one about. Mrs. Alumbaugh with the two children who were sleeping with her, and her sister, clothed only in their night clothes, had gone to the nearest neighbor some distance away.Mr. Alumbaugh supposed that all had perished until the neighbors his wife had aroused, appeared on the scene. The tragedy is indeed a sad one. The property loss is of little consequence in comparison with the death of the three helpless children. The father and mother are prostrate. The kindly ministration of neighbors and friends is to some extent consoling, but time alone can assuage such grief as theirs must be.
Lexington Intelligencer, October 03, 1913
EARLY MORNING TRAGEDYThree Children of Jesse Alumbaugh Burned to DeathEarly Sunday morning the residence of Jenne Alumbaugh, one mile east of Napoleon, caught fire and was completely consumed. Mrs. Alumbaugh with two children and her sister were sleeping down stairs and three of their eldest children were sleeping up stairs. When the fire awoke the sleepers, the stairway leading to the upper story was enveloped in flames making it impossible to rescue the children from this direction. There was one outside window to the upper story and to this Mrs. Alumbaugh placed a ladder. Two of the children had made their way to this window and rescue seemed easy, but the window could not be raised, and before Mrs. Alumbaugh could make an opening the floor gave way and the little ones were precipitated into the flames below, where rescue was impossible. They were entirely consumed. Mr. Alumbaugh was away hunting at the time. He saw the fire from a distance, surmising that the fire was at his own house, he ran to the scene only to find his home in ashes and no one about. Mrs. Alumbaugh with the two children who were sleeping with her, and her sister, clothed only in their night clothes, had gone to the nearest neighbor some distance away.Mr. Alumbaugh supposed that all had perished until the neighbors his wife had aroused, appeared on the scene. The tragedy is indeed a sad one. The property loss is of little consequence in comparison with the death of the three helpless children. The father and mother are prostrate. The kindly ministration of neighbors and friends is to some extent consoling, but time alone can assuage such grief as theirs must be.
EARLY MORNING TRAGEDYThree Children of Jesse Alumbaugh Burned to DeathEarly Sunday morning the residence of Jenne Alumbaugh, one mile east of Napoleon, caught fire and was completely consumed. Mrs. Alumbaugh with two children and her sister were sleeping down stairs and three of their eldest children were sleeping up stairs. When the fire awoke the sleepers, the stairway leading to the upper story was enveloped in flames making it impossible to rescue the children from this direction. There was one outside window to the upper story and to this Mrs. Alumbaugh placed a ladder. Two of the children had made their way to this window and rescue seemed easy, but the window could not be raised, and before Mrs. Alumbaugh could make an opening the floor gave way and the little ones were precipitated into the flames below, where rescue was impossible. They were entirely consumed. Mr. Alumbaugh was away hunting at the time. He saw the fire from a distance, surmising that the fire was at his own house, he ran to the scene only to find his home in ashes and no one about. Mrs. Alumbaugh with the two children who were sleeping with her, and her sister, clothed only in their night clothes, had gone to the nearest neighbor some distance away.Mr. Alumbaugh supposed that all had perished until the neighbors his wife had aroused, appeared on the scene. The tragedy is indeed a sad one. The property loss is of little consequence in comparison with the death of the three helpless children. The father and mother are prostrate. The kindly ministration of neighbors and friends is to some extent consoling, but time alone can assuage such grief as theirs must be.
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