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The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Horrible accident (search)
Horrible accident
--Five Persons Burned to Death.--Daniel Swearingen, a farmer, going from Tuscawara county, Ohio, to Fort Dodge, Iowa, while crossing the prairie, near the latter place, on the 2d inst, with his wife and four children in a wagon, was overtaken by a prairie fire, and all except the father perished.
The Nevada Advocate says:
Without other warning than a moment's sensation of heat as felt through the cover of the wagon in which they were all traveling in fancied securi rred mass, in which was no trace of humanity left.
One of the horses was burned to death in the harness; the other succeeded in freeing himself, but is badly burned.
The dead are Mary Ann, the wife of Mr. Swearingen, aged 30 years; Sarah Jane, Rebecca Ellen, George Dalton and Sabrina, his children, aged respectively, eleven, nine, seven and two years. The calamity occurred about seven miles northwest of this place on the Fort Dodge road, in a small basin, or commencement of a water channel.