Child of Mr. and Mrs. Stiff died 1895

STIFF, STOWE

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 4/5/2020 at 18:49:40

Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, Wednesday, September 4, 1895

BURNED TO DEATH.

FIVE WEEKS OLD BABY LOSES
ITS LIFE AT ELMIRA.

William Stiff's Boarding House
and Ives Postoffice Burned This
Forenoon--Night Operator Stowe
Narrowly Escaped by is Badly
Burned on Head and Back.

Meagre information has reached this city of a disastrous fire this forenoon at Elmira Junction, twenty-three miles south of this city on the Cedar Rapids Route. The boarding house conducted by William Stiff was burned to the ground, and a five weeks old child of Mr. and Mrs. Stiff lost its life. Night Operator Stowe was sleeping in the house and narrowly escaped with his life. He is badly burned about the head, back and hands and was brought up on No. 3 and taken to St. Luke's. The postoffice "Ives" was conducted in the same building but Postmaster Charles of this city has not been notified as to whether there was any loss to the mails.

How the fire originated and the extent of the loss have not been learned.

A later report says that Mr. Stowe was burned while trying to rescue the child from the fire.