History of Rochester, Vermont, USA

RUTLAND, Vt., Feb. 1. - Six persons, four of them small children, lost their lives, two other children were probably fatally burned and their parents were seriously injured in a fire at Rochester, Vt., twenty miles from here, that destroyed the ramshackle house in which they made their home, at 5 o'clock this morning.

The dead are:

Lewis Martel, aged 70 years;
Arthur Martel, aged 21 years;
Earl Martel, aged 9 years;
Catherine Martel, aged 7 years;
Chester Martel, aged 5 years;
Weller Martel, aged 4 years.
Henry Martel, the father of the children, escaped with burned hands. Mrs. Martel, mother of the children, was badly burned, and her condition, coupled with the shock, is extremely critical.

So far as can be learned, Henry Martel, father of the family, arose about 5 o'clock to light the fire. It is thought that he must have poured gasoline into the stove instead of kerosene. Two containers were in the back part of the house and he may have picked up the wrong one in the ...

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