Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Dixon, Mary May 1, 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Luce pegsue59@cox.net January 3, 2007, 6:24 pm Walnut Valley Times, May 2, 1903, Volume XXXIV, Number 14 Mary, the 7 year old daughter of G. W. Dixon, who lives in the southwest part of town, the first door west of the south school building was burned to death yesterday afternoon. The little girl had come home from school, shortly after four o’clock and commenced to build a fire in the kitchen stove. She took a coal oil can and poured some oil in the stove and struck a match to light it. In some way the gas in the can ignited and the can exploded. The girl was immediately enveloped in flame, from head to foot. There was no one present but her little brother, 10 years of age. She ran out of the house screaming. He threw her on the grass and rolled her over and over in an effort to extinguish the flames. Then he took his coat and smothered them, with the assistance of neighbors who came over attracted by the girl’s screams of agony. The sufferer lingered until 10:00 o’clock this morning when her life passed away. The time of the funeral will not be decided until her brothers arrive from Oklahoma. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/butler/obits/d/dixon636ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb