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Detroit Free Press
Tuesday, 8 February, 1859

         FIRE - TWO LIVES LOST.- The house of GEORGE PIERCE,
       in Wesaw, was burned to the ground on the morning of
       Feb. 1, between 4 and 5 o'clock, and two young ment
       asleep in the chamber perished in the flames, and the
       rest of the family barely excaped from the flames with
       their lives. 
         
         MR. PIERCE arose in the morning and kindled fires in
       two stoves, and, finding it was only 4 o'clock, he lay
       down again and fell asleep. His wife, who was confined
       to her bed by illness, awoke her husband in a short
       time, telling him that she heard the roaring of fire,
       but he replied that it was the roar made by the stoves,
       and again went to sleep. In a few minutes she again
       awoke him, saying she believed the house was on fire.
       
         He immediately arose, and, opening the kitchen door,
       found it all in flames. He immediately aroused the fam-
       ily below, and went to the head of the stairs and cried
       fire. He then carried out his wife and children, and
       again attempted to go up stairs, but found the whole
       upper part of the house one sheet of flames. 
       
         He then procured a ladder and placed it to an upper
       window, broke it in, and endeavored to save the two
       young men, but the smoke and flames drove him back,
       and in a few minutes the roof fell in and everything
       was consumed.
       
         After the fire was mostly out, the remains of the
       two men were so much burned and disfigured that they
       could only be distinguished from each other by a ring
       on the finger of one of them. 
       
         One of the young men, WALTER B. KINNEY, was a con-
       stable of the township of Wesaw; the other name LaRUE;
       both young men of good characther, carpenters by trade,
       and had commenced work for MR. PIERCE only the day
       before the sad occurrence. - Niles Republican, Feb. 5.
       
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