News Item:
"Three Children Burned to Death at Millersburg"
Three Children of Mr. and Mrs. George Brewster Perish in Flames.
Girl of Four Years and Boys of Three Years and Eight Months are Tiny Sufferers.
Millersburg was visited Monday with one of the horrors which too often strikes terror into the heart when the alarm of the fire is turned on. Three children, ranging from eight months of age to four years, were burned to death in the flames which destroyed the house in which Mr. and Mrs. George Brewster were living. In spite of the fact that men were on the scene almost immediately after the fire was discovered, they were unable to rescue the little ones.
Mrs. Brewster had left the children Mary, aged four years, Harold, three years old, and George, a baby of eight months, in the house alone while she went to a neighbor's. How the fire started is not known, but when discovered the house was a mass of flames and no one was able to enter to attempt a rescue of the children. Their charred bodies were found, the two oldest near the back door and that of the baby farther inside the house, after the embers had cooled.
Undertaker Chris Atkins took charge of the bodies. Coroner Shirtum was called but no inquest was deemed necessary. House and contents were a total loss. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster have seven children in all. The four who escaped were in school at the time of the fire which occurred about three o'clock in the afternoon. Their house was a frame building standing not far from the depot grounds, a two story frame structure of a type an easy prey to hungry flames.
(Ethan Brya, correspondent, in a January 28, 1929 edition of a Presque Isle County newspaper as quoted by Derek Fielding in his "Fielding Family Tree" on Ancestry.com.)
"Three Children Burned to Death at Millersburg"
Three Children of Mr. and Mrs. George Brewster Perish in Flames.
Girl of Four Years and Boys of Three Years and Eight Months are Tiny Sufferers.
Millersburg was visited Monday with one of the horrors which too often strikes terror into the heart when the alarm of the fire is turned on. Three children, ranging from eight months of age to four years, were burned to death in the flames which destroyed the house in which Mr. and Mrs. George Brewster were living. In spite of the fact that men were on the scene almost immediately after the fire was discovered, they were unable to rescue the little ones.
Mrs. Brewster had left the children Mary, aged four years, Harold, three years old, and George, a baby of eight months, in the house alone while she went to a neighbor's. How the fire started is not known, but when discovered the house was a mass of flames and no one was able to enter to attempt a rescue of the children. Their charred bodies were found, the two oldest near the back door and that of the baby farther inside the house, after the embers had cooled.
Undertaker Chris Atkins took charge of the bodies. Coroner Shirtum was called but no inquest was deemed necessary. House and contents were a total loss. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster have seven children in all. The four who escaped were in school at the time of the fire which occurred about three o'clock in the afternoon. Their house was a frame building standing not far from the depot grounds, a two story frame structure of a type an easy prey to hungry flames.
(Ethan Brya, correspondent, in a January 28, 1929 edition of a Presque Isle County newspaper as quoted by Derek Fielding in his "Fielding Family Tree" on Ancestry.com.)
News Item:
"Three Children Burned to Death at Millersburg"
Three Children of Mr. and Mrs. George Brewster Perish in Flames.
Girl of Four Years and Boys of Three Years and Eight Months are Tiny Sufferers.
Millersburg was visited Monday with one of the horrors which too often strikes terror into the heart when the alarm of the fire is turned on. Three children, ranging from eight months of age to four years, were burned to death in the flames which destroyed the house in which Mr. and Mrs. George Brewster were living. In spite of the fact that men were on the scene almost immediately after the fire was discovered, they were unable to rescue the little ones.
Mrs. Brewster had left the children Mary, aged four years, Harold, three years old, and George, a baby of eight months, in the house alone while she went to a neighbor's. How the fire started is not known, but when discovered the house was a mass of flames and no one was able to enter to attempt a rescue of the children. Their charred bodies were found, the two oldest near the back door and that of the baby farther inside the house, after the embers had cooled.
Undertaker Chris Atkins took charge of the bodies. Coroner Shirtum was called but no inquest was deemed necessary. House and contents were a total loss. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster have seven children in all. The four who escaped were in school at the time of the fire which occurred about three o'clock in the afternoon. Their house was a frame building standing not far from the depot grounds, a two story frame structure of a type an easy prey to hungry flames.
(Ethan Brya, correspondent, in a January 28, 1929 edition of a Presque Isle County newspaper as quoted by Derek Fielding in his "Fielding Family Tree" on Ancestry.com.)
"Three Children Burned to Death at Millersburg"
Three Children of Mr. and Mrs. George Brewster Perish in Flames.
Girl of Four Years and Boys of Three Years and Eight Months are Tiny Sufferers.
Millersburg was visited Monday with one of the horrors which too often strikes terror into the heart when the alarm of the fire is turned on. Three children, ranging from eight months of age to four years, were burned to death in the flames which destroyed the house in which Mr. and Mrs. George Brewster were living. In spite of the fact that men were on the scene almost immediately after the fire was discovered, they were unable to rescue the little ones.
Mrs. Brewster had left the children Mary, aged four years, Harold, three years old, and George, a baby of eight months, in the house alone while she went to a neighbor's. How the fire started is not known, but when discovered the house was a mass of flames and no one was able to enter to attempt a rescue of the children. Their charred bodies were found, the two oldest near the back door and that of the baby farther inside the house, after the embers had cooled.
Undertaker Chris Atkins took charge of the bodies. Coroner Shirtum was called but no inquest was deemed necessary. House and contents were a total loss. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster have seven children in all. The four who escaped were in school at the time of the fire which occurred about three o'clock in the afternoon. Their house was a frame building standing not far from the depot grounds, a two story frame structure of a type an easy prey to hungry flames.
(Ethan Brya, correspondent, in a January 28, 1929 edition of a Presque Isle County newspaper as quoted by Derek Fielding in his "Fielding Family Tree" on Ancestry.com.)
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