Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Stroup, Jacob R. 1906
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Payette Independent  8-3-1906
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
Friday, August 3, 1906

PAYETTE BOY'S TRAGIC DEATH

Jacob R. Stroup Loses His Life While Sleeping in Boat House At Coeur d'Alene 
City

Jacob R. Stroup, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Stroup, pioneer residents of 
Washoe bottom, lost his life in a fire at Coeur d'Alene City, Idaho, early 
Monday morning. A telegram conveying the sad news was received by the parents 
at this place about noon of that day, but gave no further particlar than the 
brief announcement that the young man had met his death in a fire. It was 
learned later from newspaper dispatches that Jacob Stroup and Ernest Miles 
were burned to death at Coeur d'Alene City while sleeping in a boat house 
which burned at the wharf. The bodies were not discovered until the sides of 
the burning boat house had fallen in, the remains being almost unrecognizable 
when recovered.

By the afternoon train Monday A. A. and Streetor Stroup, brothers of the 
deceased, departed for Coeur d'Alene City, returning with the body on the 
early morning train Thursday. The funeral took place from the home of the 
parents of the deceased in Washoe, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the 
body was laid to rest in Riverside cemetery.

Young Stroup was 24 years old and having grown up from childhood near this 
city was known to many of the Independent's readers, whose deepest sympathy 
goes out to the afflicted family in this hour of sad bereavement.

It is learned that the young men who lost their lives were employed by a boat 
company and slept in the boat house which contained gasoline and was lighted 
by a large gasoline lamp, the origin of the fire having probably been the 
explosion of the lamp which ignited the other gasoline, and caused an 
explosion which destroyed the light structure almost instantaneously.

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