The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-19
DEATH IN A LIME KILN.
Terrible Fate Of Two Cbiidren and Woman
IN P.nnsylvania.

porrsvrILE. Pa, July 1s.--John r. Cam
eron lives on farm one mile from this village.
He has lime kiln a quarter Of a mile from his
house, near the main road. Yesterday he
started fire In It and went away to his work In
a hay field. Two OF his children. a boy nine
years old and girl aged Ave were playing about
the kiln. over the mouth OF the kiln is a wind
lass by which large bu 'ket Is lowered to the
bottom. The Oldest Of the two children thought
1t would be nice to ri !e bis little sister up nd
down In the ucket. She clambered in, and he
let her down into the pit. The FIRE had by that
time got under good headway, and the stone
was becoming heated and emIttIng poisonous
gas.
The little girl screamed to come no, ana her
brother led to OulI up the bucket, but CO I'D
not st irt 1t. Al er several attempts, he st rted
on a run for nome, where he told his mother
ana Rrandmu ther, VINO were alone In the mouse,
the STU ,tion 40 aDove. The two women ran TO
the Kiln Mrs G ,meron saw her child lying on
the bottom. She had fan N out Of the bucket,
beng overpowered Nv The gas. Thinking That
the child might he restored " ken out at once,
MR.. c meron drew the bucket up. She placed
her little hoy IN 1t, ami telling him To place the
body nf his little sister in II "a quickly "a posi-
BILE. and ret back into 1t himself, she lowered
h,m IN o the noxi Gus pit The little fellow sue
ceeded In placing the body In the bucket. and,
clinrins to the side Of 1t himself was drawn a
few feet UPWARD. when he succumoed to the IN
huence Of the sas and fell back unconscious to
the bottom.
Mrs. Cameron drew the body OF her little girl
TO tNe TOP anu ndSlly removed II from the
bucket and placed II on the GROUND. She then
gave the crank Il the windlass to her mother
tn-law. a adv nearly 20 years old, and told her to
low er her quicklv into tie pitt to the rescue OF
her other enid. SIC then got into the bucket.
Her eight VS. more than old Mrs. hnerOn
could control, and the CT INK slip ed from her
! hands, and whirling round struVk her on the
head nd Knocked her senseie>s t. the ground.
| Her daughter iu-l W was hurled violently to the
bottom 81 the Kim, and NJ dOuot rendered
unconscinus nefore the gas affected her.
the Pottsvie stage came along about the
| time Mrs. WerOn was peel itated into the
| Kiln. John Kane, the driver. seeing the bleed
| ing bouy OF the old lauN, and the apparently
lfeless cd, of the little eirl. stopped the stage
and Jumped out. He discovered the bodies
| Of tue other two In the kim. Calling n
gentleman In the stage to his aid, he
went dom into the kin by means OF
| the wiudl ss rope. and placed the body OF
| Mrs. Cameron In the bucket. |, was drawn up,
| and the hlcke lowered. K1ne succeed In get
ting inio the bucket with the boys BODY, but
bec me unconscious soon afterward, and was
taken from the BUCKET IN thit state. 1t was
some tine before he was restored.
| Old Mrs. Cameron was brought to conscious
ness IN short time. her wounds not beng serl-
| Gus. Her jaughter-in-ldw ana the two children
were dead. A. soon rs Kane recovered sum
| GENTLY, the three bodies were placed In the
stage aud taken nome, and MIR. Cameron sum
| mOned 4 ON his work. Mrs. Cameron was 81
| We r. old. Ihis makes three deaths that nave
| occurred unoer similar circumstances at thii
| kiln during the past seven years.