On Saturday evening the 21st, between five and six, J. J. Self's house on Brushy Mountain burned to the ground and two little children he had been keeping for Miles P. Kimble, aged two and five years, respectively lost their lives. How the fire got started is a mystery that will never be known. Mr Self who carries them ail from Ketterman to Brushy Run, had not returned from his trip that day and his wife was doing the feeding. Her and a sister of the unfortunate children had gone some distance to get some fodder and which took about fifteen minutes to make the trip. She says when she got back in sight of the house she noticed the smile coming out of the kitchen. She ran as fast as she could and found the door buttoned on the inside. She burst it open and the flames and heat was so intense that she could not get in but, says she things she saw one of the children lying on the floor with the hair all burned off its head.
When she found she could not save the children she turned her attention to the house which was not yet on fire and managed with the help of a couple young men to save a little bedding and furniture.
Mrs. Self says she had baked a turn of bread and had taken it out and set it on a chair and covered it with another pan. That bread was in the stove after the embers had died out, which shows that the children might have noticed the fire and were trying to save the bread. She also says that the dog was on the outside when she left and that the children must have let it in because it has not been seen since.
Besides losing his house and furniture his stock of provisions were mostly in the kitchen and which consisted of canned goods, butters, beans and meat as he had done part of his butchering. He also lost a lot of lumber that he had been drying for quite a while, to build a new kitchen. The remains of the children were burned beyond recognition and all that could be done was to gather up all the bones they could find and buried them at the Conrad grave yard, where there mother was laid to her final rest about a year ago. Those people surely merits the sympathy of everyone not only in the loss of their property but int he loss of those children to whom they had become so greatly attached.
Geo. Borror
Courtesy of the Grant County Press
When she found she could not save the children she turned her attention to the house which was not yet on fire and managed with the help of a couple young men to save a little bedding and furniture.
Mrs. Self says she had baked a turn of bread and had taken it out and set it on a chair and covered it with another pan. That bread was in the stove after the embers had died out, which shows that the children might have noticed the fire and were trying to save the bread. She also says that the dog was on the outside when she left and that the children must have let it in because it has not been seen since.
Besides losing his house and furniture his stock of provisions were mostly in the kitchen and which consisted of canned goods, butters, beans and meat as he had done part of his butchering. He also lost a lot of lumber that he had been drying for quite a while, to build a new kitchen. The remains of the children were burned beyond recognition and all that could be done was to gather up all the bones they could find and buried them at the Conrad grave yard, where there mother was laid to her final rest about a year ago. Those people surely merits the sympathy of everyone not only in the loss of their property but int he loss of those children to whom they had become so greatly attached.
Geo. Borror
Courtesy of the Grant County Press
On Saturday evening the 21st, between five and six, J. J. Self's house on Brushy Mountain burned to the ground and two little children he had been keeping for Miles P. Kimble, aged two and five years, respectively lost their lives. How the fire got started is a mystery that will never be known. Mr Self who carries them ail from Ketterman to Brushy Run, had not returned from his trip that day and his wife was doing the feeding. Her and a sister of the unfortunate children had gone some distance to get some fodder and which took about fifteen minutes to make the trip. She says when she got back in sight of the house she noticed the smile coming out of the kitchen. She ran as fast as she could and found the door buttoned on the inside. She burst it open and the flames and heat was so intense that she could not get in but, says she things she saw one of the children lying on the floor with the hair all burned off its head.
When she found she could not save the children she turned her attention to the house which was not yet on fire and managed with the help of a couple young men to save a little bedding and furniture.
Mrs. Self says she had baked a turn of bread and had taken it out and set it on a chair and covered it with another pan. That bread was in the stove after the embers had died out, which shows that the children might have noticed the fire and were trying to save the bread. She also says that the dog was on the outside when she left and that the children must have let it in because it has not been seen since.
Besides losing his house and furniture his stock of provisions were mostly in the kitchen and which consisted of canned goods, butters, beans and meat as he had done part of his butchering. He also lost a lot of lumber that he had been drying for quite a while, to build a new kitchen. The remains of the children were burned beyond recognition and all that could be done was to gather up all the bones they could find and buried them at the Conrad grave yard, where there mother was laid to her final rest about a year ago. Those people surely merits the sympathy of everyone not only in the loss of their property but int he loss of those children to whom they had become so greatly attached.
Geo. Borror
Courtesy of the Grant County Press
When she found she could not save the children she turned her attention to the house which was not yet on fire and managed with the help of a couple young men to save a little bedding and furniture.
Mrs. Self says she had baked a turn of bread and had taken it out and set it on a chair and covered it with another pan. That bread was in the stove after the embers had died out, which shows that the children might have noticed the fire and were trying to save the bread. She also says that the dog was on the outside when she left and that the children must have let it in because it has not been seen since.
Besides losing his house and furniture his stock of provisions were mostly in the kitchen and which consisted of canned goods, butters, beans and meat as he had done part of his butchering. He also lost a lot of lumber that he had been drying for quite a while, to build a new kitchen. The remains of the children were burned beyond recognition and all that could be done was to gather up all the bones they could find and buried them at the Conrad grave yard, where there mother was laid to her final rest about a year ago. Those people surely merits the sympathy of everyone not only in the loss of their property but int he loss of those children to whom they had become so greatly attached.
Geo. Borror
Courtesy of the Grant County Press
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