Blue Mound, Jan. 29 - Girl Heroine of Blaze to Be Paid Honor - Geneva Markwell, 13 year old school girl of this place will be buried a heroine Sunday afternoon. With the little heroine will be buried her 9 months old sister, Gwendolyn, for whose life Geneva futilely gave up her own. The two are children of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Markwell. Geneva had come home from school Wednesday afternoon and had started to assist her mother prepare the evening meal. She poured kerosene on the kitchen stove, while the mother was in another part of the house. The can of inflammable fluid exploded, the flames set fire to the little girl's clothing and the force of the blast blew out the kitchen window. The kitchen also was set afire. Geneva believing the house would burn, fought off her mother's efforts to extinguish the flames which were enveloping her little body and rushed to another room and picked up her baby sister and ran from the house. The baby's clothing was set afire by the contact. Geneva died a few hours later and the baby sister died last night. The mother also seriously burned was taken to a hospital at Decatur, where she was resting easily last night. The father of the two children was chopping wood when the accident occurred. He crashed a glass door with his fist, and severely cut his left hand. Neighbors were summoned and the fire in the kitchen was soon extinguished. The two tots will be buried at a double funeral service. Interment will be in Hall cemetery. Il State Journal, Springfield, Il, 1-30-1926
Blue Mound, Jan. 29 - Girl Heroine of Blaze to Be Paid Honor - Geneva Markwell, 13 year old school girl of this place will be buried a heroine Sunday afternoon. With the little heroine will be buried her 9 months old sister, Gwendolyn, for whose life Geneva futilely gave up her own. The two are children of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Markwell. Geneva had come home from school Wednesday afternoon and had started to assist her mother prepare the evening meal. She poured kerosene on the kitchen stove, while the mother was in another part of the house. The can of inflammable fluid exploded, the flames set fire to the little girl's clothing and the force of the blast blew out the kitchen window. The kitchen also was set afire. Geneva believing the house would burn, fought off her mother's efforts to extinguish the flames which were enveloping her little body and rushed to another room and picked up her baby sister and ran from the house. The baby's clothing was set afire by the contact. Geneva died a few hours later and the baby sister died last night. The mother also seriously burned was taken to a hospital at Decatur, where she was resting easily last night. The father of the two children was chopping wood when the accident occurred. He crashed a glass door with his fist, and severely cut his left hand. Neighbors were summoned and the fire in the kitchen was soon extinguished. The two tots will be buried at a double funeral service. Interment will be in Hall cemetery. Il State Journal, Springfield, Il, 1-30-1926
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