DISTRESSINGLY SAD.
A Woman and Child Burned to Death in A Prairie Fire.
One of the most distressingly sad cases of death that ever occurred in this section is that of Mrs. Schroeder and little child who perished in a prairie fire about twenty miles north of this city Tuesday afternoon. The family are well known in town having lived on Second Avenue north for a year or more in a comfortable house which they still own and into which they intended soon to move for the winter so that the children could attend school.
The particulars of the sad affair are as follows, as related to us by the eldest son, a young man about 21 years of age: He and his father, Carl Schroeder, were about four miles from home threshing, they owning and running a thresher, when the fire was discovered coming towards their house and wheat stacks. The father told the young man to take a horse and ride over home and see to guarding the stacks against the fire. When he arrived the fire was very near to the stacks and he found his mother and four children out beating back the flames. The heat was so intense that the young man told his mother and the smaller children to go to another point where the heat was not so great. This they did but were soon compelled to seek refuge from the flames. One boy succeeded in reaching the plowed ground, two of the other children, a girl and boy, ran into a pond of water near by and by ducking themselves in the water counteracted the heat and prevented their clothing from taking fire. The mother with the youngest child, about three years old, succeeded in getting behind the fire on the ground just burned over, but were strangled by the dense smoke that arose from the smoldering ashes, fell exhausted and perished, the child in its mothers arms, their clothing taking fire and burning on their bodies.
The bodies of the unfortunate victims were brought into the city yesterday evening to their former place of residence on Second Avenue from which the sad funeral will take place this afternoon and burial at Highland Home cemetery. Mrs. Schoeder's age was about 42 years. The children that escaped with their lives are more or less scorched but not dangerously injured.
The fire, after burning Mr. Schroeder's wheat and oats stacks swept along toward where they were threshing, consuming the thresher and wheat, the horses and mules to the horse power being saved by being cut loose and turned out to take care of themselves. Mr. Schoeder's {sp} house escaped destruction.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 10/23/1884
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Bill Bailey Insane.
Bill Bailey, a Tagus farmer, was arrested Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Dick Steinhofer and brot {sp} to the county jail. Bailey is undoubtedly insane. He has terrorized several of the residents of the Tagus country by entering their homes. He imagines that he owns the entire country.
Ward County Independent, 11/26/1908
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George Bacon and George Monahan had a disagreement up in Nelson county, Bacon licked Monahan, and the latter got a shotgun and planted a few shot in the skin of the other man. Bacon was fined $10 and Monahan was held to the district court.
Bismarck Tribune, 11/12/1897
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Badly Crushed.
Harry Fergueson who had his leg badly crushed and broken Tuesday is at the city hospital. He was on his way to Fred Smith's place 18 miles southwest when the accident occurred. When about 10 miles out he decided to get on the wagon which was loaded with lumber and ride for a while as he had been walking to keep warm. In climbing on the wagon he slipped and the wheel of the wagon passed over his leg below the knee, crushing and breaking it. He was quickly conveyed to the city hospital as quickly as possible.
Jamestown Weekly Alert, 12/5/1901
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Harry Brown of Fargo, a 4-year-old boy is supposed to have walked into an airhole on the ice of the river and perished. His companion, a boy of about the same age, told his mother that "Harry walked into the hole in the ice and didn't come up any more." Dynamite was used but at last reports wthout
{sp} result.
Valley City Times-Record, 12/19/1912
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MADMAN WITH KNIFE AND HAMMER IS CAPTURED
Wyndmere, Dec. 16.—Confronted by a madman armed with a knife and hammer, Arthur Holstrom, night engineer in charge of the Wyndmere electric plant, was last night driven into a corner of the engine-room, where he heard James Kelly, the intruder, calmly anounce "I will kill you."
Seized a moment later by another mood, Kelly, who had broken into the plant through a side door, declared he would let Holmstrom live to "hold him as a witness." A moment later Holmstrom succeeded in making a dash for liberty.
Returning with three men, Holmstrom and his companions rushed at the madman, overpowered and disarmed him only after a fierce struggle. None were injured.
Valley City Times-Record, 12/21/1916
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