Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1925-01-02
THOMAS ZACHARY
VICTIM OF FLAMES
Elderly Gentleman Burned
To Death In Sunday
Nights Blaze = Re-
mains Held Pend
ing Instructions

resilient Oh mountain t1OLu0I wal
burned to death at his ranch home
near this city last Sunday evening
Zachary was about sixty years o.
age and has lived in this section fol
many years during which time h'
has followed the vocation of a farm
er. He is survived by a sister and
a nephew residing in North Carolina
The charred remains will be put IN
a receiving vault until relatives may
express their desires relative to theiI
final disposition.
Coroner Ottenheimer summoned q
coroner's jury, which met last Mon
day evening at the Zacher Chapel
at which time the following story OF
the fatal accident became known.
Early in the evening, last Sunday,
Jack Greenstreet. who had some fur
niture at the Zachary place, called
there to get some bedding with
which to make himself bed at his
place. When Mr.. Greenstreet knocked
at the door of the old gentleman
about six O'Clock it took consider
able time to attract attention but
finally the old man bade him enter.
When Greenstreet entered the cabin
Zachary was in bed and apparently
was intoxicated as he told his visi-
tor that he had been to town few
days previous and secured some
liquor. He told Greenstreet that he
was mighty glad to see him as he
was nearly frozen and asked his visi-
tor to make a fire for him and make
some coffee. Mr.. Greenstreet made
the fire and to hurry the blaze
along he poured some coal oil
on the flames from a can which was
sitting near the stove. Mr.. Green
street then prepared to leave and
went to his auto which was stuck
in nearby snow drift. After get
ting his machine out he started on
his way to his home and as he neared
it he noticed blaze from the Zach
ary home. He Immediately rushed
back but by the time he got there
the building was mass of flames.
He called several times for the old
gentleman thinking perhaps that he
r,ros xropd anime oro,,pd IN fha do yIr-
ness, but was unable to locate him.
The fire alarm was shortly sounded
and numerous people responded and
after some little time the charred re-
mains of Mr.. Zachary were found.
What was left of the body was
found in a pantry, which adjoined
the bed room and from which there
was no exit and it is believed that
the doomed man lost his bearings
when the fire started and wandered
into the pantry and was overcome
with the smoke and heat. The bed
ding had been strewn about the room,
which indicated that he had endeav-
ored to put out the blaze. 1t is sup
posed that the can containing the
coal oil became ignited and possibly
exploded as the flames gained rapid
headway and in a very short time the
entire structure was burning ruin.
Zacher Immediately went
to the scene and it was discovered
that there was nothing left of the
body but the trunk, the legs and
arms having been completely severed
as a result of the flames. The body
was then brought to this city.
DR.. Hamilton made an examina-
ton of the remains and stated that
there was enough of the lungs left
for him to tell that death was the
result of suffocation from the smoke
and heat.
other witnesses examined at the
inquest were: Carl E. Johnson and
R. B. Rainey.
The coroner's jury, which was
composed of William Love. Capt.
Ernest Latimore, Geo. L.
Rudolph Larsen and Carl
Carlson, found that the deceased
came to his death as result of an
accidental fire, the origin OF which
was unknown to the jury.
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