Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1915 — WOMAN AND THREE CHILDREN CREMATED [ARTICLE]

WOMAN AND THREE CHILDREN CREMATED

Mrs. J. J. Pershing and Three Children Lost Lives- in Flames of Home At San Francisco.

San Francisco, Aug. 27.—'Mrs. J. J. ePrshing, wife of Gen. Pershing, in charge of the federal troops at El Paso, Tex., and her three children were burned to death early today in their home in the office section of the Presidio. Mrs. Pershing was the daughter of U. S. “Senator Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming. She was married to Gen. Pershing in Washington on June 26th, 1906. Gen. Pershing is commander of the eighth brigade of the army. The Ire that cost the lives of Mrs. Pershing, Margaret, 3; Ann, 6, and Helen, 8, was discovered at 5 o’clock this morning. The entire section of the building was gutted. Mrs. Walter O. Boswell, wife of Lieut. Boswell, her two ahildren, their nurse maid and Warren Pershing, aged 5, were resiued by firemen. After the fire was extinguished the bodies of Mrs. Pershing and her three young daughters were found lying under Mrs. Pershing’s bed. They had evidently crawled there to escape the suffocating smoke. The positions in which their bodies were found indicated that all of them had suffered terribly before the end came.