Julie Isabelle Beem (1896)

BEEM

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 5/24/2008 at 09:40:14

Semi Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Tuesday, September 22, 1896
Page 1

A little child of Mr. Beem’s was scalded to death Saturday, September 19th. Its mother had just filled a vessel with hot water, and turned around to do something, when the little fellow fell into it and was scalded so severely that it died the same night.
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Semi Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Tuesday, September 22, 1896
Page 5

Another Child Scalded to Death.

Another shocking accident, similar to that which happened recently to the McCleary child in Jefferson township, occurred last Saturday in the family of L. L. Beem, of Webster township. A tub of water which had been heated for scrubbing, stood on the floor, and the little three-year-old daughter of the family sat down on the edge of the tub, and, losing her balance, slipped into the water and was fatally scalded before she could be gotten out. This happened at about three in the afternoon, and the little one lived until night, dying at about nine o’clock.
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Semi Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, September 25, 1896

Another horrible death by scalding is reported from Webster twp. The little 3 year old child of Mr. & Mrs. Lem Beem, of Webster twp., interested in watching her mother’s preparations for scrubbing Sat. afternoon about 3 o’clock, sat down on the edge of a tub of hot water & fell in. Her mother got her out almost instantly but the child was fatally scalded, dying at 9 o’clock in the evening. It is the second accident of that kind in the county within the past month.