PRAIRIE FARM TRAGEDY
SEVEN DIE IN FIRE
TWO LEFT OUT OF FAMILY
VANCOUVER, March 29. j Mrs. Philip Gillespie, aged 34, and six of her seven young children, were burned to death when their farmhouse was consumed in a prairie village 200 miles north of Winnipeg. Her. husband and the remaining son were badly burned. Mrs. Gillespie in lighting a fire used a kerosene can, which exploded. The wooden house because an inferno. She ran upstairs to rescue-the children, but never reached them. '.. The eldest boy stumbled over the mother and fell downstairs. ' , The father was feeding the cattle when he heard the explosion and saw the fire. He rushed back to the house and managed to get-far enough inside to rescue the eldest boy, but .was unable to do more.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 9
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131PRAIRIE FARM TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 9
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