The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-03-31
TWO MEET DEATH
IN BURNING HOME
Mrs. Newton and Son, John,
lncinerated in Sioux
City Fire.
THE MOTHER HAD TAINTED
This Is IRE Only Explanation of the
Fact, That, After Being Walk
cncd. She Did Not Escape
from Open Window.
THE MOTHER HAD TAINTED

attempting to rescue the others.
The dead:
Mrs. HARLAND MENTION. aged As
shelton. Ncp
JOHN NEWTON, aged 9, son of Mrs.
Newton.
The injured:
Henry a. kneebonc. driver for the
Nudrie grocery. aged %. burned about
The head and hands: not serious.
Mrs. Newton met death at the very
moment % her escape from the burn
ing building and after frantic efforts
h* Nneeho!ln. her son-in-law. to save
her.
calling from the second story room.
she said she would flee al once. Later
she appeared at the window. half
dressed. and then stepped bach pre-
SumablH 20 call her boy. and was seen
Il" mn"re. Il, Is supposed she fainted.
kneebone Risked Death.
linecbon" risked death in a vain at
tempt to save his mother-in-law. Run
ming through a cauldron of lame. which
biistered his hands and face. burned
his hair from his head and scorched
his bare feet, he CROPPED blindly abou
to find Tie doomed woman and her
boz. only 10 be forced by smoke and
fumes tc retreat.
The house burned To the ground in
tie presence of The remcn and crowd
OF ilc'GhhorS who We're powcrless 10
SAY" the prisoners. The charred re-
main" of the mother and son We're
found in ,he basement and taken To
N"&tcott's morguc
While he husband WAS attempting
to recue her mother and brother, Mrs.
kii"nbone. weak and sick, seized her
l~i-dnys-old infant and escaped to the
home OF Il neighbor i'm her night cloth
Ing. Though i'll. she is enduring the or
deal braVcl.-.
1t Was a Gasoline Stove.
Mrs. Newton nd her hoy arrived
Mon lay evening from shelton. Neb.
10 visit her daughter. Mrs. k%neebone.
whose baby was born eleven days ago.
She vas doing the houScwork and ear
ing for her daughter.
Last evening at supper. Mrs. Newton.
who was not familiar with the use of
gasoline. asked her son to turn off the
burner. The boy reported it had al
ready been tusncd off, but ii is evident
TINT it had not. for when Mr.. Knee
h"'r at 10 o'clock last night examined
the stove he discovered the tank was
empty. Surprising the burner was
turned off. he refilled the tank so that
he could attend TO the fire early this
morning. The gasoline escaping all
might from the burner filed the pan
beneath il n ran over the floor. When
kneebonc at $40 o'cloc rose. and
walking into the kitchen, struck a
match, the explosion followed.
Mrs. Newton Upstairs.
The lNneebone cottage WAS n story
ana u half structure with a one-story
Kitchen. There were -four rooms. three
downstairs and one upstairs. The up
lishtcd by full length windows at the
EAST aud west ends. MIR. and Mrs.
l[nccbone and the baby slept in a bed
room downstairs opening off the sit
ting room. These two rooms We're i'm
mediatcly beneath the room occupied
by Mrs. Newton and the bov. The
kitchen was on the north side. A door
I'D from the sitting room into the
Kitchen and the door to the stairway.
leading to the room which Mrs. New
toa and the boy occupied opened into
tha Kitchen.
Nueebone rose shortly after 5 O'Clock.
aud heard Mrs. Newton stirring in The
room overhead He stennad ,nietl,.
into In. ki,chen rlosinr hehind hi,n
the door leading to the sitting room.
The door :, the stairs was also closed.
The ONE he struck a match there
WAS an explosion and the gasoline took
fire.
Would Carry Burning Stove.
Selling The stove Kneebone attempt
oil 10 carry it outdoors. His clothing
WAS; soon l!!amc and he WAS com
relled to drop it. The noise of the
explosion and the movements of Knee
bone were heard by Mrs. Newton. VINO
called from the stairs:
is the house on fire."
Yes. Mother; dress quickly. Get
John and go to the east window. I'll
take you down from there" shouted
kneebonr. hurrying outside.
iIneebonn warned his wife. who
seized her baby and ran TO the home
II Frank Messick near by. Kneebonc
had no ladder. but he found a piece
"f gas ptpe about ten feet long. This
h' l"ok ana broke the WINDOW on IN"
'H'S, sue.
-, ftuilt' lllo,ner, come ana Jump and
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ny i".in 81 MS t>eW'oh. hal'
crossed; appearen IN me broken Win
G.M, ;" - ~ '"e HNc was con-
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~, "no.nei 'aileu
49, "n l,.,dor" GU" ''nh JUMP l
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morlches OF agony.
Mrs; Newton said nothing. but
turned back; ~>neebone waited a mo-
cries to rouse her to her danger We're