"About dawn on 23 Oct 1950, when he applied coal oil to kindle a coal stove, it exploded. The one and one-half story frame house had only one exit, at the rear, and the stove was near that door. The front door led to a porch which had been boarded up to provide another room. Four sons died in the fire, their bodies were found piled near a screen window."
It doesn't mention that the boys grandmother also died in the fire, but not before she was able to toss her baby grand-daughter out of an upstairs window. The baby survived. The four boys who died were between the ages of five and ten. This tragedy is still talked about in our neighborhood, 63 years later.
I start fires in my shop furnace with paper, cardboard, kindling, etc.
Outside boiler burns year round. Probably only had a half dozen fires built in it in 15 years. Paper and kindling for it too.
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