When Claude Bailey of Plad left home Tuesday morning to work at a molasses mill three miles away little did he dream of the tragedy that awaited his family that day. At one-thirty that afternoon his home and all contents were destroyed by fire, three of his children fatally burned, and his wife so severely burned that she is in a critical condition in a hospital at Springfield.
Mrs. Bailey was ill and in bed that day. The five children ranging in age from 19 months to 9 years were with her. About one-thirty the children had found an egg and Clarence, 7, and Ruth Pauline, 5, asked the mother if they could it for the baby, Hazel, 19 months old. She told them that the fire which had been used to get dinner had died too low and to not try to kindle it up again. Unknown to her the children went ahead. She does not know exactly what happened, but thinks they poured coal oil on the coals which remained in the stove, for Ruth Pauline came running and screaming out of the kitchen with her clothes on fire and ran under a bed. Mrs. Bailey got up from bed and pulled the child from under the bed and took her out of doors. All the other children followed her but the baby who was still in the kitchen. But in the excitement of putting the fire out of the clothing of both the mother and the little girl the baby was evidently temporarily forgotten. The house was in flames quickly and the mother became aware that both the baby and Clarence were not out of doors, the lad evidently having rushed back in to get the baby. Mrs. Bailey found the boy crawling around inside in the smoke and flames and carried him out. He was so badly burned that he died fifteen minutes later. She started back in to try to find the baby, but help which had arrived by this time, seeing that the roof was caving in and that it was too late, held her bodily to keep her from losing her life also. Thus the baby perished in the flaming house, and only its charred bones were recovered afterward.
Mrs. Bailey and Ruth Pauline were rushed to Buffalo by neighbors and received first aid treatment. Then they were taken to a hospital in Springfield where the little girl died Tuesday night.
Mr Bailey of course was unaware of the whole tragedy until word was carried to him at the molasses mill at the home of his father, John G Bailey, three miles east of Plad.
The two children who escaped injury are Thelma, 3, and Dorothy, 9. Dorothy was sent by the mother for help when they first got out of the house.
Mr. Bailey is a splendid hard-working man but of very modest circumstances so that the awful experience is a crushing blow from every stand-point. The people of Dallas county are known for their thoughtfulness and generosity in disasters of this kind, and they doubtless will respond to the need in the usual magnanimous way.
Ran in the Buffalo Reflex on Oct 5, 1933.
Mrs. Bailey was ill and in bed that day. The five children ranging in age from 19 months to 9 years were with her. About one-thirty the children had found an egg and Clarence, 7, and Ruth Pauline, 5, asked the mother if they could it for the baby, Hazel, 19 months old. She told them that the fire which had been used to get dinner had died too low and to not try to kindle it up again. Unknown to her the children went ahead. She does not know exactly what happened, but thinks they poured coal oil on the coals which remained in the stove, for Ruth Pauline came running and screaming out of the kitchen with her clothes on fire and ran under a bed. Mrs. Bailey got up from bed and pulled the child from under the bed and took her out of doors. All the other children followed her but the baby who was still in the kitchen. But in the excitement of putting the fire out of the clothing of both the mother and the little girl the baby was evidently temporarily forgotten. The house was in flames quickly and the mother became aware that both the baby and Clarence were not out of doors, the lad evidently having rushed back in to get the baby. Mrs. Bailey found the boy crawling around inside in the smoke and flames and carried him out. He was so badly burned that he died fifteen minutes later. She started back in to try to find the baby, but help which had arrived by this time, seeing that the roof was caving in and that it was too late, held her bodily to keep her from losing her life also. Thus the baby perished in the flaming house, and only its charred bones were recovered afterward.
Mrs. Bailey and Ruth Pauline were rushed to Buffalo by neighbors and received first aid treatment. Then they were taken to a hospital in Springfield where the little girl died Tuesday night.
Mr Bailey of course was unaware of the whole tragedy until word was carried to him at the molasses mill at the home of his father, John G Bailey, three miles east of Plad.
The two children who escaped injury are Thelma, 3, and Dorothy, 9. Dorothy was sent by the mother for help when they first got out of the house.
Mr. Bailey is a splendid hard-working man but of very modest circumstances so that the awful experience is a crushing blow from every stand-point. The people of Dallas county are known for their thoughtfulness and generosity in disasters of this kind, and they doubtless will respond to the need in the usual magnanimous way.
Ran in the Buffalo Reflex on Oct 5, 1933.
When Claude Bailey of Plad left home Tuesday morning to work at a molasses mill three miles away little did he dream of the tragedy that awaited his family that day. At one-thirty that afternoon his home and all contents were destroyed by fire, three of his children fatally burned, and his wife so severely burned that she is in a critical condition in a hospital at Springfield.
Mrs. Bailey was ill and in bed that day. The five children ranging in age from 19 months to 9 years were with her. About one-thirty the children had found an egg and Clarence, 7, and Ruth Pauline, 5, asked the mother if they could it for the baby, Hazel, 19 months old. She told them that the fire which had been used to get dinner had died too low and to not try to kindle it up again. Unknown to her the children went ahead. She does not know exactly what happened, but thinks they poured coal oil on the coals which remained in the stove, for Ruth Pauline came running and screaming out of the kitchen with her clothes on fire and ran under a bed. Mrs. Bailey got up from bed and pulled the child from under the bed and took her out of doors. All the other children followed her but the baby who was still in the kitchen. But in the excitement of putting the fire out of the clothing of both the mother and the little girl the baby was evidently temporarily forgotten. The house was in flames quickly and the mother became aware that both the baby and Clarence were not out of doors, the lad evidently having rushed back in to get the baby. Mrs. Bailey found the boy crawling around inside in the smoke and flames and carried him out. He was so badly burned that he died fifteen minutes later. She started back in to try to find the baby, but help which had arrived by this time, seeing that the roof was caving in and that it was too late, held her bodily to keep her from losing her life also. Thus the baby perished in the flaming house, and only its charred bones were recovered afterward.
Mrs. Bailey and Ruth Pauline were rushed to Buffalo by neighbors and received first aid treatment. Then they were taken to a hospital in Springfield where the little girl died Tuesday night.
Mr Bailey of course was unaware of the whole tragedy until word was carried to him at the molasses mill at the home of his father, John G Bailey, three miles east of Plad.
The two children who escaped injury are Thelma, 3, and Dorothy, 9. Dorothy was sent by the mother for help when they first got out of the house.
Mr. Bailey is a splendid hard-working man but of very modest circumstances so that the awful experience is a crushing blow from every stand-point. The people of Dallas county are known for their thoughtfulness and generosity in disasters of this kind, and they doubtless will respond to the need in the usual magnanimous way.
Ran in the Buffalo Reflex on Oct 5, 1933.
Mrs. Bailey was ill and in bed that day. The five children ranging in age from 19 months to 9 years were with her. About one-thirty the children had found an egg and Clarence, 7, and Ruth Pauline, 5, asked the mother if they could it for the baby, Hazel, 19 months old. She told them that the fire which had been used to get dinner had died too low and to not try to kindle it up again. Unknown to her the children went ahead. She does not know exactly what happened, but thinks they poured coal oil on the coals which remained in the stove, for Ruth Pauline came running and screaming out of the kitchen with her clothes on fire and ran under a bed. Mrs. Bailey got up from bed and pulled the child from under the bed and took her out of doors. All the other children followed her but the baby who was still in the kitchen. But in the excitement of putting the fire out of the clothing of both the mother and the little girl the baby was evidently temporarily forgotten. The house was in flames quickly and the mother became aware that both the baby and Clarence were not out of doors, the lad evidently having rushed back in to get the baby. Mrs. Bailey found the boy crawling around inside in the smoke and flames and carried him out. He was so badly burned that he died fifteen minutes later. She started back in to try to find the baby, but help which had arrived by this time, seeing that the roof was caving in and that it was too late, held her bodily to keep her from losing her life also. Thus the baby perished in the flaming house, and only its charred bones were recovered afterward.
Mrs. Bailey and Ruth Pauline were rushed to Buffalo by neighbors and received first aid treatment. Then they were taken to a hospital in Springfield where the little girl died Tuesday night.
Mr Bailey of course was unaware of the whole tragedy until word was carried to him at the molasses mill at the home of his father, John G Bailey, three miles east of Plad.
The two children who escaped injury are Thelma, 3, and Dorothy, 9. Dorothy was sent by the mother for help when they first got out of the house.
Mr. Bailey is a splendid hard-working man but of very modest circumstances so that the awful experience is a crushing blow from every stand-point. The people of Dallas county are known for their thoughtfulness and generosity in disasters of this kind, and they doubtless will respond to the need in the usual magnanimous way.
Ran in the Buffalo Reflex on Oct 5, 1933.
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