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| Name |
Mary Francis Bisher [1, 2, 3] |
| Born |
28 Mar 1863 |
Indiana  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Person ID |
I2672 |
Bishir Family | John & Angelina Bishir |
| Last Modified |
4 Apr 2009 |
| Father |
Joseph Bisher, b. 27 Jul 1829, Mason, Warren Co., Ohio , d. 14 Mar 1907, Fulton Co., Indiana (Age 77 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Frocoat, b. 21 Feb 1833, Ohio , d. 19 Dec 1920, Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana (Age 87 years) |
| Married |
15 Apr 1852 |
Adams Co., Indiana |
| Family ID |
F502 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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- The Rochester Sentinel, 1886
Wednesday, August 4, 1886
DIED - Many of our readers are no doubt acquainted with James CAHILL, who last December moved from this city to western Illinois. Mr. Cahill had lived in Rochester for several years and came here from Kewanna, where he married a daughter of Mr. Jos. BISHER.
The Sentinel is in receipt of a copy of the Decaur (Ill.) Herald of the issue of July 29, in which the particulars of the heartrending affair are given as follows:
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Yesterday afternoon at about two o“clock came the news of a babe which was burned to death in a burning building near the city limits, and east of the Amman brickyards. A Herald Scribe sought the facts, and immediately repaired to the scene. On the site of the house, on the ground owned by James GADDIS, there was only a heap of ashes, and in the midst of the pile no trace of the burned child could be found. The scribe, thereore, sought the mother, Mrs. James CAHILL, who lay suffering at the home of W. DAUBENSPECK, some distance south. From her at second-hand he obtained the following particulars of the catastrophe to her family:
”I was working in the potato patch at some distance from the house, and was so busy that I had not looked toward the house for some time. I heard my boys, aged five and three years, calling to me from the house, and looking toward them I saw that the house was on fire.
”My baby, three months old, was in the cab inside, and I ran with all possible speed to the house. The fire seemed greatest in the front room, where the baby was, although there had been no fire in that part for two months. The heat was awful, but I wanted to save my baby, and rushed through the flames. I did not know where the cab was exactly. I was crazed. I heard baby scream once after I was in the house, but I could not see anything for the fire and smoke. I felt my senses leaving me. I was fainting as I rushed out again. The fire was all about me. My dress and hair were ablaze. I managed to reach the spring and lay down beneath it before my senses left me. The pain was awful, but the water quenched the fire, and there I remained until help came. Then I was brought here. I don“t know how the fire could have started. There was very little fire in the cook stove in the kitchen, and none in the room in front.•
The woman“s injuries are very serious. She is burned all over the face and neck. Her eyebrows and eyelashes are burned off, and half the hair is burned from the head. Both arms are very severely burned to the elbows, and the right forearm is so badly burned that the flesh may drop off in places. Her ears and lips are terribly burned. He lips are white. She is covered with blisters. There appears as yet no reason to believe that she inhaled flame so as to permanently injure her lungs. Dr. HARSHA attended her and administered such relief to the sufferer as was possible to give. She is a woman apparently about 35 years of age. She will recover.
The burned house was an old log structure of two rooms. It was very dry and burned fiercely. When the flames attracted the attention of the neighbors they ran to the spot, but could do nothing towards extinguishing the fire. The heat was so intense that they could not approach the dwelling.
It was the property of James GADDIS and was valued at about $300. All the clothing and furniture belonging to James Cahill and wife were burned. Cahill is a day laborer and in needy circumstances.
The two children who called to their mother were uninjured. They had probably left the house before the fire started. It is conjectured that they were playing with matches and had started the fire without knowing it.
The coroner was notified last evening but could not find the remains. The calamity has nearly crazed the poor mother. She has undergone such physical suffering that she is unable to say much. She is being cared for by the Daubenspeck family, and, unless something more appears in the case than is now evident, the good nursing and careful treatment she is receiving will lead to her recovery.
It is a case the sadness of which appeals to the sympathy of all.
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Mr. & Mrs. Cahill have many friends and relatives here who will be pained to hear of this terrible calamity which has overtaken them, and the heart of every mother will go out in sympathy to the parents, whose darling baby had to meet the most horrible of deaths.
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