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Ruth, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Burns, of Reynoldsville, was incinerated last Friday night when the Burns dwelling was totally destroyed by fire. The fire occurred at 11 o'clock while Mr. & Mrs. Burns were attending a festival and started from a gas jet in a store room on the first floor of the building. Glen Burns who remained at home with his sister discovered the fire and hastened to spread the alarm forgetting as did others, to warn his sister. Later her body was recovered from a position under her bed where she had been suffocated by the smoke. The Burns dwelling was a new one and had been occupied by the family only since Monday of last week as their home had been destroyed by the fire that visited that section of Reynoldsville last year.
Source:
Transcribed from a Punxsutawney area newspaper dated May 1904.
Ruth's birth year is estimated.
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Ruth, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Burns, of Reynoldsville, was incinerated last Friday night when the Burns dwelling was totally destroyed by fire. The fire occurred at 11 o'clock while Mr. & Mrs. Burns were attending a festival and started from a gas jet in a store room on the first floor of the building. Glen Burns who remained at home with his sister discovered the fire and hastened to spread the alarm forgetting as did others, to warn his sister. Later her body was recovered from a position under her bed where she had been suffocated by the smoke. The Burns dwelling was a new one and had been occupied by the family only since Monday of last week as their home had been destroyed by the fire that visited that section of Reynoldsville last year.
Source:
Transcribed from a Punxsutawney area newspaper dated May 1904.
Ruth's birth year is estimated.
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Ruth, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Burns, of Reynoldsville, was incinerated last Friday night when the Burns dwelling was totally destroyed by fire. The fire occurred at 11 o'clock while Mr. & Mrs. Burns were attending a festival and started from a gas jet in a store room on the first floor of the building. Glen Burns who remained at home with his sister discovered the fire and hastened to spread the alarm forgetting as did others, to warn his sister. Later her body was recovered from a position under her bed where she had been suffocated by the smoke. The Burns dwelling was a new one and had been occupied by the family only since Monday of last week as their home had been destroyed by the fire that visited that section of Reynoldsville last year.
Source:
Transcribed from a Punxsutawney area newspaper dated May 1904.
Ruth's birth year is estimated.
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Ruth, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Burns, of Reynoldsville, was incinerated last Friday night when the Burns dwelling was totally destroyed by fire. The fire occurred at 11 o'clock while Mr. & Mrs. Burns were attending a festival and started from a gas jet in a store room on the first floor of the building. Glen Burns who remained at home with his sister discovered the fire and hastened to spread the alarm forgetting as did others, to warn his sister. Later her body was recovered from a position under her bed where she had been suffocated by the smoke. The Burns dwelling was a new one and had been occupied by the family only since Monday of last week as their home had been destroyed by the fire that visited that section of Reynoldsville last year.
Source:
Transcribed from a Punxsutawney area newspaper dated May 1904.
Ruth's birth year is estimated.
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