People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — Mother and Child Perish by Fire. [ARTICLE]

Mother and Child Perish by Fire.

Mii.waukke. Jan. 2i. —A mother, with her child clasped ia her arms, both enveloped in flames, was the scene witnessed Friday evening in the vicinity of No. 117 T Eighth street. Tho flames were soon extinguished, hut both died within a few minutes. The victims were Mrs. Louisa Lancaster and her x-year-old child. The child had overturned a lamp, setting fire to its clothes. After vainly trying to extinguish the Ore Mrs. Lan* caster grabbed the child in her arms and rushed downstairs Into the street. In the meauUinv her own clothes had taken fire.