A Family Cremated

Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
May
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text
Art.ingtox, Neb., May 5.- On the farm of the "Widow Freeze, near this place, early yesterday morning occurred a horrible catastrophe. Fire broke out in a barn, and whon citizens reached the spot two hours later thcy found in the ruins the ] charred remains of seven human beings, distributed among the burned carcasses of the live stock. The entiro family, consisting of four adults and three children, had been burned to death, probably in the attempt to rescue the twenty-üvo head of cattle from the burning stable.
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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register