Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1909 — A LITTLE CHILD BURNED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

A LITTLE CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.

Four-Year-Old Daughter of Samuel Brofleld of Roselawn Meets a Terrible Death., The four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brofield of Roselawn, while playing with fire in a stove, got its dress on fire last Friday afternoon, while its. mother was away to a neighbor’s and the father was away to work, and ran out in the street with its chothing all aflame. Before the flames could be extinguished the child was burned so fearfully that it died some three or four hours later. Only by the timely arrival of neighbors ■ was the house, In which two younger children were, one a babe a year old, saved from being burned down. The family are very poor people 'and have a hard time to get along. Farmers, see Maines & Hamilton and get their prices before you buy your Discs, Spaders, Endgate Seeders, Sulky or Gang Plows, Walking Plows, Harrows, Rock Island Seeders or Wagons.