THREE BURNED TO DEATH. IN FIRE THAT DESTROYED THEIR HOME. One Body Cremated - Others Die From Severe Burns. The home of Albert Ingersoll, living about seven miles south-east of this place, was burned to the ground last Thursday forenoon at about eleven o'clock, and three children, all girls, aged two, three and five years, were burned to death. Mr. Ingersoll, who is employed at S. A. Wellman & Co.'s Springfiled mill, left home in the morning little thinking that on his return he would find his home and the majority of his family wiped out. The facts in the case as near as we can otain are as follows: Mrs. Ingersoll and four little ones were at home alone and at about ten o'clock the oldest, a boy of seven years, started out saying he was going to find his dog. After being gone some little time, the mother thinking he had been gone longer than he ought, started to look him up. She went in the direction of one of the neighbors, about sixty rods distant, but before reaching there she met the boy returning, and on turning to go home she saw the house on fire and two of the children running down the road toward her with their clothing all aflame. Before reaching them one of the little tots, the younger of the two, had fallen dead by the roadside, the other one living a short time to tell how the sad accident happened. In some manner they had spilled kerosene oil on the floor and attempted to mop it up with a cloth and burn the cloth when the fire caught their clothing and the oil on the floor, the baby being unable to get out of the house, its body was cremated, scarcely any particles of it being found after the fire. This is indeed a terrible blow to Mr. and Mrs. Ingersoll, as they not only lost their three children but all their clothing and household effects, being left with only what they had on their backs. The funeral services of the little ones were held at the Breed school house on Friday afternoon, the Rev. Burdge of Fife Lake officiating. In the Traverse City Daily Eagle of last Friday a telegram from Fife Lake stated that the children were left alone from eight o'clock in the morning until noon, and we wish to state to the Eagle that this is not true, as we have it on the best authority that Mrs. Ingersoll was not away from the house to exceed twenty minutes. It is surely sad enough for the parents to lose their children in such an awful manner without having to face a falsehood of this kind. - Boardman News,South Boardman, Michigan; December 21, 1905