Three children incinerated

PITTSBURG, Kan., -- Three small children were burned to death about noon yesterday at the Cornell coal camp, five miles northeast of Pittsburg on the Missouri Pacific. Mrs. A. Guerin, a Belgian woman, had gone to a store in the camp to buy meat for dinner and left her three children, the eldest 6 years old, in the house alone. She locked the door to keep the little ones from going outside while she was gone. Soon after she left the house, about 11 o'clock, neighbors saw flames bursting through the roof. It was not known at first that the children were within. By the time the neighbors reached the house it was a mass of flames and it was impossible for anyone to enter. The Guerin home was a small three bedroom cottage, and the flames had such a start that it was burned down in a very short time. The bodies of the three children were found in the ashes of the house. The cause of the fire is not known.

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Bronaugh to vote on school bonds Tuesday

In a special school bond election to be held Tuesday, Jan. 17, voters in the Bronaugh R-& school district will decide whether or not $150,000 in bonds should be issued for the improvement of school facilities in the district.

If passed, the bond money will be used to replace the high school building, which was condemned as unsafe and razed last summer. At present only the vocational, home economics and elementary school are standing.