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    1. Fatally Burned: Chas. BLYE's little girl.; March 26, 1897
    2. The Anthony Weeky Bulletin Harper County Friday March 26, 1897 Fatally Burned. Wednesday afternoon the little five-year-old daughter of Chas. BLYE was fatally burned. From one report we understand that Mrs. BLYE and the little girl raked the grass and leaves up during the early part of the afternoon and that Mrs. BLYE told the child that they would have a bonfire when papa came home in the evening. The child did not wait for papa but fired the trash and her clothing catching on fire she was hopelessly burned before her mother could reach her. Dr. CALLENDER was summoned and did everything possible to relieve the little sufferer and to save her life, but the shock to the nervous system was too great and the unequal struggle was ended at nine o'clock Thursday morning. The case is a specially sad one and the community in general as well as the neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. BLYE deplore the severe loss. Mr. BLYE is section foreman on the Missouri Pacific and lives north of the depot, and Mrs. BLYE was assisted by the depot officials and the doctor was summoned by Wilber SLOOP who rode his wheel faster than he ever rode it before.

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