SOURCE: Death Certificate: Interment took place on 3/4/1956
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The Billings Gazette, (MT.) 3/2/1956 Friday Page
Miles City, MT. ---– A Miles City mother gave her own life Thursday in a futile attempt to save her 5-year-old daughter from their burning home. The mother and daughter were Mrs. James Abbott, 35, and little Jacqueline.
They were asphyxiated in a fire that destroyed their one-story frame home just beyond the northern outskirts of Miles City.
Coroner Kenneth Rudolph said two teenage boys who escaped through a window told him their mother was outside once. But, they said, she re-entered the house in a vain effort to save her daughter.
Neighbors carried out the bodies of Mrs. Abbott and Jacqueline a few minutes before the fire destroyed the house.
The coroner said they were asphyxiated by the dense smoke but were not burned. The boys who escaped were James, 13, and Robert, 14. Their father, a heavy equipment operator, was working out of town.
Rudolph, who plans no inquest, said the fire may have started from a water heater.
It broke out about 1 a.m.
The Custer County Rural Fire Department answered a late call but the house was beyond saving when the equipment arrived.
City firemen do not handle calls outside the city limits. It was the first fatal fire in several years in the Miles City area.
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The Billings Gazette, (MT.) 3/2/1956 Friday Page
Miles City, MT. ---– A Miles City mother gave her own life Thursday in a futile attempt to save her 5-year-old daughter from their burning home. The mother and daughter were Mrs. James Abbott, 35, and little Jacqueline.
They were asphyxiated in a fire that destroyed their one-story frame home just beyond the northern outskirts of Miles City.
Coroner Kenneth Rudolph said two teenage boys who escaped through a window told him their mother was outside once. But, they said, she re-entered the house in a vain effort to save her daughter.
Neighbors carried out the bodies of Mrs. Abbott and Jacqueline a few minutes before the fire destroyed the house.
The coroner said they were asphyxiated by the dense smoke but were not burned. The boys who escaped were James, 13, and Robert, 14. Their father, a heavy equipment operator, was working out of town.
Rudolph, who plans no inquest, said the fire may have started from a water heater.
It broke out about 1 a.m.
The Custer County Rural Fire Department answered a late call but the house was beyond saving when the equipment arrived.
City firemen do not handle calls outside the city limits. It was the first fatal fire in several years in the Miles City area.
SOURCE: Death Certificate: Interment took place on 3/4/1956
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The Billings Gazette, (MT.) 3/2/1956 Friday Page
Miles City, MT. ---– A Miles City mother gave her own life Thursday in a futile attempt to save her 5-year-old daughter from their burning home. The mother and daughter were Mrs. James Abbott, 35, and little Jacqueline.
They were asphyxiated in a fire that destroyed their one-story frame home just beyond the northern outskirts of Miles City.
Coroner Kenneth Rudolph said two teenage boys who escaped through a window told him their mother was outside once. But, they said, she re-entered the house in a vain effort to save her daughter.
Neighbors carried out the bodies of Mrs. Abbott and Jacqueline a few minutes before the fire destroyed the house.
The coroner said they were asphyxiated by the dense smoke but were not burned. The boys who escaped were James, 13, and Robert, 14. Their father, a heavy equipment operator, was working out of town.
Rudolph, who plans no inquest, said the fire may have started from a water heater.
It broke out about 1 a.m.
The Custer County Rural Fire Department answered a late call but the house was beyond saving when the equipment arrived.
City firemen do not handle calls outside the city limits. It was the first fatal fire in several years in the Miles City area.
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The Billings Gazette, (MT.) 3/2/1956 Friday Page
Miles City, MT. ---– A Miles City mother gave her own life Thursday in a futile attempt to save her 5-year-old daughter from their burning home. The mother and daughter were Mrs. James Abbott, 35, and little Jacqueline.
They were asphyxiated in a fire that destroyed their one-story frame home just beyond the northern outskirts of Miles City.
Coroner Kenneth Rudolph said two teenage boys who escaped through a window told him their mother was outside once. But, they said, she re-entered the house in a vain effort to save her daughter.
Neighbors carried out the bodies of Mrs. Abbott and Jacqueline a few minutes before the fire destroyed the house.
The coroner said they were asphyxiated by the dense smoke but were not burned. The boys who escaped were James, 13, and Robert, 14. Their father, a heavy equipment operator, was working out of town.
Rudolph, who plans no inquest, said the fire may have started from a water heater.
It broke out about 1 a.m.
The Custer County Rural Fire Department answered a late call but the house was beyond saving when the equipment arrived.
City firemen do not handle calls outside the city limits. It was the first fatal fire in several years in the Miles City area.
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