Wichita Evening Eagle, Friday, April 18, 1947, Page 1
WICHITAN PERISHED IN FLAMES
OCCUPANT OF OLD PEOPLES' HOME KILLED
Body Is Burned Beyond Recognition as Fire Sweeps Annex
(Picture on Page 7)
Fred Seely, aged 75, was burned to death Friday at 2:07 a. m. when the room in which he was residing at the Cozy Home for Elderly People, 1125 North Emporia, caught on fire.
District Fire Chief A. L. Gray said Seely lived in a six-room brick-and frame house behind the main home.
Linus Beard, 75, paralyzed in one leg, was in an adjacent room. He suffered from shock but was uninjured otherwise.
The flames had reached such headyway Seely was burned beyond recognition. He is reported to have been blind and not mentally alert.
Nine aged men were in the house.
C. E. Cox, 723 South Main, is reported to be owner and manager of the home, a private institution.
Woman Sees Smoke
An unidentified cab driver gave the first alarm of fire, it was learned this morning from Cox, manager of the home. Driving a woman to her home, directly across the street from the Home, the woman noticed smoke rising from the roof of the small annex where Seely had his room. At her suggestion the driver took his car to the end of the block and drove up the alley, behind the annex, and, seeing flames, sounded his horn twice which was a prearranged signal that she should call the fire department.
Seely is survived by his widow, Mrs. Seely, two sons, Harry and Fred, and three daughters, Mrs. Glen Louderback, Mrs. Clyde McCreedy and Leona Seely, all of Fort Scott, Kan.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Byrd-Bnodgrass mortuary.
WICHITAN PERISHED IN FLAMES
OCCUPANT OF OLD PEOPLES' HOME KILLED
Body Is Burned Beyond Recognition as Fire Sweeps Annex
(Picture on Page 7)
Fred Seely, aged 75, was burned to death Friday at 2:07 a. m. when the room in which he was residing at the Cozy Home for Elderly People, 1125 North Emporia, caught on fire.
District Fire Chief A. L. Gray said Seely lived in a six-room brick-and frame house behind the main home.
Linus Beard, 75, paralyzed in one leg, was in an adjacent room. He suffered from shock but was uninjured otherwise.
The flames had reached such headyway Seely was burned beyond recognition. He is reported to have been blind and not mentally alert.
Nine aged men were in the house.
C. E. Cox, 723 South Main, is reported to be owner and manager of the home, a private institution.
Woman Sees Smoke
An unidentified cab driver gave the first alarm of fire, it was learned this morning from Cox, manager of the home. Driving a woman to her home, directly across the street from the Home, the woman noticed smoke rising from the roof of the small annex where Seely had his room. At her suggestion the driver took his car to the end of the block and drove up the alley, behind the annex, and, seeing flames, sounded his horn twice which was a prearranged signal that she should call the fire department.
Seely is survived by his widow, Mrs. Seely, two sons, Harry and Fred, and three daughters, Mrs. Glen Louderback, Mrs. Clyde McCreedy and Leona Seely, all of Fort Scott, Kan.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Byrd-Bnodgrass mortuary.
Wichita Evening Eagle, Friday, April 18, 1947, Page 1
WICHITAN PERISHED IN FLAMES
OCCUPANT OF OLD PEOPLES' HOME KILLED
Body Is Burned Beyond Recognition as Fire Sweeps Annex
(Picture on Page 7)
Fred Seely, aged 75, was burned to death Friday at 2:07 a. m. when the room in which he was residing at the Cozy Home for Elderly People, 1125 North Emporia, caught on fire.
District Fire Chief A. L. Gray said Seely lived in a six-room brick-and frame house behind the main home.
Linus Beard, 75, paralyzed in one leg, was in an adjacent room. He suffered from shock but was uninjured otherwise.
The flames had reached such headyway Seely was burned beyond recognition. He is reported to have been blind and not mentally alert.
Nine aged men were in the house.
C. E. Cox, 723 South Main, is reported to be owner and manager of the home, a private institution.
Woman Sees Smoke
An unidentified cab driver gave the first alarm of fire, it was learned this morning from Cox, manager of the home. Driving a woman to her home, directly across the street from the Home, the woman noticed smoke rising from the roof of the small annex where Seely had his room. At her suggestion the driver took his car to the end of the block and drove up the alley, behind the annex, and, seeing flames, sounded his horn twice which was a prearranged signal that she should call the fire department.
Seely is survived by his widow, Mrs. Seely, two sons, Harry and Fred, and three daughters, Mrs. Glen Louderback, Mrs. Clyde McCreedy and Leona Seely, all of Fort Scott, Kan.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Byrd-Bnodgrass mortuary.
WICHITAN PERISHED IN FLAMES
OCCUPANT OF OLD PEOPLES' HOME KILLED
Body Is Burned Beyond Recognition as Fire Sweeps Annex
(Picture on Page 7)
Fred Seely, aged 75, was burned to death Friday at 2:07 a. m. when the room in which he was residing at the Cozy Home for Elderly People, 1125 North Emporia, caught on fire.
District Fire Chief A. L. Gray said Seely lived in a six-room brick-and frame house behind the main home.
Linus Beard, 75, paralyzed in one leg, was in an adjacent room. He suffered from shock but was uninjured otherwise.
The flames had reached such headyway Seely was burned beyond recognition. He is reported to have been blind and not mentally alert.
Nine aged men were in the house.
C. E. Cox, 723 South Main, is reported to be owner and manager of the home, a private institution.
Woman Sees Smoke
An unidentified cab driver gave the first alarm of fire, it was learned this morning from Cox, manager of the home. Driving a woman to her home, directly across the street from the Home, the woman noticed smoke rising from the roof of the small annex where Seely had his room. At her suggestion the driver took his car to the end of the block and drove up the alley, behind the annex, and, seeing flames, sounded his horn twice which was a prearranged signal that she should call the fire department.
Seely is survived by his widow, Mrs. Seely, two sons, Harry and Fred, and three daughters, Mrs. Glen Louderback, Mrs. Clyde McCreedy and Leona Seely, all of Fort Scott, Kan.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Byrd-Bnodgrass mortuary.
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