Cheyenne Newspaper
26 April 1901
A FATAL FIRE: On Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Dean Cunningham and their two children returned to their home from a visit to neighbors. Shortly after their arrival, Mrs. Cunningham who was in the cow lot, noticed smoke issuing from the house. Having left her six month old baby on the bed, she rushed in and secured the child which she found enveloped in flames, the bedclothes having caught fire in some mysterious manner. Snatching a pair of blankets, the frightened woman rushed out shrieking as she ran: "My baby! Oh my poor baby!" The child has received such serious injuries that it died that night.
In rescuing the child, the mother's clothes caught on fire but with great presence of mind, she wrapped herself and the child in the blankets and rolled on the ground until the flames were subdued. During this time the father had seen the smoke and heard the screams and was flying home. Arriving there, he found his wife enveloped in the blankets and shrieking, apparently, for her child, which he supposed was still in the house. Rushing into the blazing room, the father searched the bed vainly for his child. As he entered the door closed behind him and the smoke was so dense that he had great difficulty in getting out again.
In searching for the child in the bed, which was a mass of flames, his hands and other portions were terribly burned and he lingered in great agony until one o'clock Monday night when he died. The horrible affair has cast quite a gloom over the community and much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved widow and other relatives. Mr. Cunningham was a young man just starting out in life with every prospect for future usefulness and happiness and his sad fate is greatly mourned.
Mother was (Stella Annette Guernsey Cunningham Collett) died 15 Jan 1939 in Britton, Canadian Co, OK.
26 April 1901
A FATAL FIRE: On Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Dean Cunningham and their two children returned to their home from a visit to neighbors. Shortly after their arrival, Mrs. Cunningham who was in the cow lot, noticed smoke issuing from the house. Having left her six month old baby on the bed, she rushed in and secured the child which she found enveloped in flames, the bedclothes having caught fire in some mysterious manner. Snatching a pair of blankets, the frightened woman rushed out shrieking as she ran: "My baby! Oh my poor baby!" The child has received such serious injuries that it died that night.
In rescuing the child, the mother's clothes caught on fire but with great presence of mind, she wrapped herself and the child in the blankets and rolled on the ground until the flames were subdued. During this time the father had seen the smoke and heard the screams and was flying home. Arriving there, he found his wife enveloped in the blankets and shrieking, apparently, for her child, which he supposed was still in the house. Rushing into the blazing room, the father searched the bed vainly for his child. As he entered the door closed behind him and the smoke was so dense that he had great difficulty in getting out again.
In searching for the child in the bed, which was a mass of flames, his hands and other portions were terribly burned and he lingered in great agony until one o'clock Monday night when he died. The horrible affair has cast quite a gloom over the community and much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved widow and other relatives. Mr. Cunningham was a young man just starting out in life with every prospect for future usefulness and happiness and his sad fate is greatly mourned.
Mother was (Stella Annette Guernsey Cunningham Collett) died 15 Jan 1939 in Britton, Canadian Co, OK.
Cheyenne Newspaper
26 April 1901
A FATAL FIRE: On Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Dean Cunningham and their two children returned to their home from a visit to neighbors. Shortly after their arrival, Mrs. Cunningham who was in the cow lot, noticed smoke issuing from the house. Having left her six month old baby on the bed, she rushed in and secured the child which she found enveloped in flames, the bedclothes having caught fire in some mysterious manner. Snatching a pair of blankets, the frightened woman rushed out shrieking as she ran: "My baby! Oh my poor baby!" The child has received such serious injuries that it died that night.
In rescuing the child, the mother's clothes caught on fire but with great presence of mind, she wrapped herself and the child in the blankets and rolled on the ground until the flames were subdued. During this time the father had seen the smoke and heard the screams and was flying home. Arriving there, he found his wife enveloped in the blankets and shrieking, apparently, for her child, which he supposed was still in the house. Rushing into the blazing room, the father searched the bed vainly for his child. As he entered the door closed behind him and the smoke was so dense that he had great difficulty in getting out again.
In searching for the child in the bed, which was a mass of flames, his hands and other portions were terribly burned and he lingered in great agony until one o'clock Monday night when he died. The horrible affair has cast quite a gloom over the community and much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved widow and other relatives. Mr. Cunningham was a young man just starting out in life with every prospect for future usefulness and happiness and his sad fate is greatly mourned.
Mother was (Stella Annette Guernsey Cunningham Collett) died 15 Jan 1939 in Britton, Canadian Co, OK.
26 April 1901
A FATAL FIRE: On Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Dean Cunningham and their two children returned to their home from a visit to neighbors. Shortly after their arrival, Mrs. Cunningham who was in the cow lot, noticed smoke issuing from the house. Having left her six month old baby on the bed, she rushed in and secured the child which she found enveloped in flames, the bedclothes having caught fire in some mysterious manner. Snatching a pair of blankets, the frightened woman rushed out shrieking as she ran: "My baby! Oh my poor baby!" The child has received such serious injuries that it died that night.
In rescuing the child, the mother's clothes caught on fire but with great presence of mind, she wrapped herself and the child in the blankets and rolled on the ground until the flames were subdued. During this time the father had seen the smoke and heard the screams and was flying home. Arriving there, he found his wife enveloped in the blankets and shrieking, apparently, for her child, which he supposed was still in the house. Rushing into the blazing room, the father searched the bed vainly for his child. As he entered the door closed behind him and the smoke was so dense that he had great difficulty in getting out again.
In searching for the child in the bed, which was a mass of flames, his hands and other portions were terribly burned and he lingered in great agony until one o'clock Monday night when he died. The horrible affair has cast quite a gloom over the community and much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved widow and other relatives. Mr. Cunningham was a young man just starting out in life with every prospect for future usefulness and happiness and his sad fate is greatly mourned.
Mother was (Stella Annette Guernsey Cunningham Collett) died 15 Jan 1939 in Britton, Canadian Co, OK.
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