Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1915 — Two Colored Children Fatally Burned at Fowler. [ARTICLE]

Two Colored Children Fatally Burned at Fowler.

Harold and Adonis Blakely, Colored, aged 2 and 3 years respectively, were burned to death at their home in Fowler at 8 o’clock Sunday evening. Their father, David Blakely, was starting a fire in a heating stove when a coal oil can exploded, hurling oil in every direction. Mr®. Blakely and husband attempted to save the -children and were both badly burned. Mrs. Blakely is not expected to live.