Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-25
LUCILLE. HARRISON, AGED 5,BURN-
ED TO DEATH WHEN SHE
PLACES PAPER IN STOVE.
,BABo SISTER RUNS TO
TELL PARENTS At BARN
"LuciIe is Burning UP" Was Baby
Gladys Messaee-Parents Hurry to
House to Find Daughter Gasping Her
Last on Bedroom FIoor-Furnishinss
lenited in Girls Wild Flight.

! When D-year-old Lucille Harrison,
| daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Har-
/ rison, four and one half miles south
west of the city. went to show her
| younger sister. Gladys, aged ,, how she
could put paper in the stove Thursday
=, a few moments she was a mass of
/ charred flesh. Little Gladys, Fastening
/ to inform her parents of the horrible
! sight that she alone had witnessed,
! told her papa and mamma, who were
at the barn, that Lucille was burning
up" The parents hurried to the house
/ and found their elder daughter gasping
I! her last on the bedroom floor
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison We're not out
of their house to exceed ten minutes
when their little daughter came run
ing 10 them TO tell them of the acci-
| dent TO her sister. The little girl was
so excited that she could not give a
coherent account of the tragedy at
first, but later told her parents that
Lucille had put some paper in the stove
and her dress had caught.
~ Tried to Blow it OUT
Little Gladys told her parents that
show the evidences Of her baby efforts
to save her sisters life exhibited
head Of singed hair.
Lucille. after her dress became ig-
nited, ran screaming from the kitchen.
thru the dining room, and into the
bedroom. She was dead when her
parents found her, altho there was q
sign of a little gasp as the father and
mother bent over her to take her in
their arms. The little body was hardly
recognizable as human, being charred
from head TO foot, and entirely benuded
Of clothing. All that was left of the
child's wearing apparel We're her shoes.
and one of them was partially burned
away.
Sets Fire to Furnishings.
In her wild run from room to room
the little girls clothing ignited a COW
ering on the sewing machine, which
was destroyed. The wooden top of the
machine also caught ON fire, but the
blaze was soon eXting uished. The car
pet under where the little body was
found was also burned, and the wall
near where the child lay was scOrched.
Harrisons Newcomers to County.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, who ARE
/, called to give up one of their two chill
/ drSn, are newcomers 10 Inc county,
! having come from a farm four miles
north of Montour just one week ago on
the day of the tragedy. Mr.. Harrison
rented the old Fred Haskell farm, later
known as the Pierson place, four miles
south of the city on Center street, and
half mile west, in the Spring Valley
neighborhood. Mrs. Harrison was for
merly Elsie Maude Richards, and is
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Elisha Richards, old residents Of
Marion township, who lived for many
years on a farm six miles east of the
city Mr.. Harrison is son of Ed
mund Harrison. who is u member of
the soldiers home.
! The funeral will be held from the
/ residence Saturday morning at 10
o clock The body will taken to the
Dobson cemetery. ten miles east of the
! city in Tama county. where burial will
take place in the afternoon.