Hello, Are there any list members connected to this family, that may be able to answer her questions? Thanks, Deborah Subj: Family Entirely Wiped Out... Date: 9/20/04 1:46:24 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent from the Internet (Details) I saw your posting regarding the Charles Lowe family. Are you related to this family? I believe this may be my husband's ggg uncle. I know his relative (Charles E. Lowe) was deceased by the time that a biopgraphy was done about his father (John Henry Lowe) in 1913. I also know that another one of the Lowe boys married another Throckmorton (Daisy). I'm just trying to verify the connection before I pass this information on to my husband's family. I do know the other listing on genealogy.com regarding Delbert Lowe (killed by lightning strike) is indeed my husband's family. Any further information would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Lisa Lowe The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, September 14, 1905 One of the most terrible accidents that we have ever been called upon to record, occurred yesterday when the home of CHAS. LOWE near Derby was destroyed by fire and MR. LOWE and his wife, and baby were burned to death. As near as can be learned the particulars of the sad affair are as follows: FLOYD, the little son of MR. and MRS. LOWE, aged about one year, was taken seriously ill with convulsions. A physician was summoned by telephone who instructed the parents to bathe the child with hot water until he could arrive on the scene. In the haste to procure the hot water the fond father picked up a five gallon can of coal oil and poured some into the stove in which there happened to be a little fire. Instantly a blaze flashed up, there was an explosion, and in less time than it takes to tell it the whole room was ablaze. MR. LOWE picked up his wife and child and started to carry them outdoors but when he reached the door he was unable to get it open at once and put his wife and baby down until he could get outside. Overcome by excitement and fright MRS. LOWE took the baby and ran back into the burning room. MR. LOWE was unable to rescue them from the seething mass of flames and just escaped from the house himself, but his injuries were so severe that he lived but a few hours, dying about three o'clock in the afternoon. MRS. LOWE and baby perished in the flames. The terrible accident occurred yesterday forenoon about ten o'clock. MR. and MRS. LOWE had been married but about three years and resided about four miles south of Derby on the Van Miller farm. He was about 24 years of age and was a son of JOHN LOWE of Derby and a nephew of the late JOSEPH SPROTT. His wife was 20 years old and was a daughter of MR. and MRS. JOHN R. THROCKMORTON who now reside a short distance west of Derby. The funeral services of the ill fated family were held at the Last Chance Church today. The affair is an extremely pathetic one and the surviving relatives have the deepest sympathy of all good people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert September 1, 2004 http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialucas/Main.htm