Three members of a Canton family were burned to death Monday morning when they were trapped in the flaming wreckage of their small home after it had been overturned by a terrific wind which swept over this section.
Lewis LeRoy Moore, 40 year old deaf mute, who was recently employed as a WPA worker and two of his six children, Alma, 14 years old, and Charles, one month old, were trapped in the blazing building, their bodies being charred beyond recognition.
Mildred Moore, wife and mother of the victims and also a deaf mute, and the couple’s four other children escaped. They were taken to the hospital in that city. Mrs. Moore suffered a cut on the left knee, abrasions and cuts on head; Elsie Jane, daughter, Betty Ann, 8 years old, cut on right hand; Lewis Jr., 4 abrasions and cuts on head; Elsie Jane, only one of the five burned, suffered burns on the left arm and back; Bobby, 11 years old, was not injured.
The entire family were huddled in the kitchen of their home, a three-room frame structure covered with roofing material, when the heavy wind swept through that section of the city. The light structure was leveled and a moment later fire from the kitchen stove had turned the wreckage into an inferno. Mrs. Moore and four of the children managed to fight their way through the blazing wreckage in safety. The others were trapped in the burning wreckage.
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