Clearfield County PA Archives - Obituaries: Tubbs Family, Nov 1861

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The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. 
 
Thursday, November 14, 1861
 
Volume 3, Number 8
 
Shocking Casualty
 
 
     A fearful occurrence transpired a few days
since in Furguson township, Clearfield county. 
A man named Nicholas Tubbs and his wife started to a school 
house in the neighborhood for the purpose of attending religious 
service, taking with them their youngest child and leaving the 
balance of the family at home. Shortly after reaching the school 
house the frightful intelligence reached them that their dwelling 
was on fire. The distracted parents hurried home as quick
as possible but the rafters had commenced falling in and the rescue of the
inmates was found impossible. Four children, two boys and two girls, 
perished in the flames. The oldest was eleven and the youngest three
years of age. The bodies of two of them were entirely consumed and of 
the other two their limbs were burned off and the
balance of their remains reduced to a shapeless mass. The origin of 
the fire is unknown but it is believed that the children had retired to 
bed and that falling to sleep the flames were communicated in some way 
from the candle. The calamity was a most appalling one and the
parents of the unfortunate children are almost distracted by their tragic end.