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Indianapolis Daily Sentinel
January 1, 1869


              A Terrible Disaster - An Old Lady
              of Seventy Years Burned to Death -
              Narrow Escape of Three Children.
              
              A most terrible disaster occurred one and
           a half miles from Jasper, the county seat of
           Dubois county, on Christmas day which, from
           its suddenness and fatal results, spread a
           gloom over this entire community. A gentle-
           man named DISHINGER and his mother resided
           together in a house situated about a mile and
           a half from Jasper. The mother was seventy
           years of age, and quite feeble.
              On Christmas day MR. DISHINGER and a
           portion of his family went to church, leaving
           his mother and three of his children, all
           small, at home. During MR. DISHINGER'S ab-
           sence his mother's clothes, by some means,
           took fire and were soon in a blaze. She was
           in her own room when her clothing took fire,
           and immediately ran out into an adjoining
           room where the three little children were,
           crying "Help me! help me, children!" The two
           oldest children, terribly frightened, ran
           out into the yard, leaving the baby in the
           cradle in the room with the burning grand-
           mother.
              The oldest girl, about eight years old,
           almost immediately returned to the room, 
           however, and rescued the infant from its
           perilous situation; but she was unable to
           aid her grandmother, and the old lady ran
           to a bed in the room and tried to get under
           the bed clothing in order to smother out the
           flames. She fell upon the bed without accom-
           plishing her object, and it immediately took
           fire and was soon in a blaze. From the bed
           the flames communicated to the house, and
           it was soon reduced to a heap of ruins, and
           all its contents destroyed. The old lady's
           body was nearly entirely consumed. It is
           said she had about five hundred dollars in
           gold and other property in her room amount-
           ing to about one thousand dollars in value,
           all of which was lost.
           
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