Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Dixon, Mary May 1, 1903
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Walnut Valley Times, May 2, 1903, Volume XXXIV, Number 14
Mary, the 7 year old daughter of G. W. Dixon, who lives in the southwest part 
of town, the first door west of the south school building was burned to death 
yesterday afternoon. The little girl had come home from school, shortly after 
four o'clock and commenced to build a fire in the kitchen stove. She took a 
coal oil can and poured some oil in the stove and struck a match to light it. 
In some way the gas in the can ignited and the can exploded. The girl was 
immediately enveloped in flame, from head to foot. There was no one present but 
her little brother, 10 years of age. She ran out of the house screaming. He 
threw her on the grass and rolled her over and over in an effort to extinguish 
the flames. Then he took his coat and smothered them, with the assistance of 
neighbors who came over attracted by the girl's screams of agony. The sufferer 
lingered until 10:00 o'clock this morning when her life passed away. The time 
of the funeral will not be decided until her brothers arrive from Oklahoma.



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