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Boy Burned To Death

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

BOY BURNED

                        TO DEATH

HE HAD BEEN WORKING IN ANN ARBOR.

 

HIS ROOM CAUGHT FIRE FROM

           A LAMP MONDAY

                 MORNING.

  Arthur Sellick, a 13 year old boy who has been engaged in carrying water to the men engaged in carrying water to the men engaged on the Ann Arbor storm sewers for Hutzel & Co. was burned to death in Jackson Monday. He was boarding with his sister Mrs. A. Meyers. He was sleeping in a room with the lamp burning but turned low and was awakened, to find that his room all in a blaze. He managed to escape but was taken to the hospital. The other members of the family man-aged to escape in their night clothes and some of the furniture in the lower part of the house was saved. The fire occured at about 3 o'clock in the morn-ing. The boy died at the city hospital at noon.