The Daily Phoenix

A Horrible Death.—On Thursday of last week, a negro house on the plantation of Mr. John Mace, in Marion County, was destroyed by fire. The house was, at the time, occupied by a colored family, consisting of Mark Crawford, his wife and five children. Just before day the father and the eldest child left the house, after having made up a large fire. Soon afterwards the wife awoke to discover the house in flames. She had an infant occupying the bed with her, and a little boy of three years old, and two girls, one of four and one of eight years old, sleeping on the floor. On being aroused by the fire, in an almost suffocated condition, she rushed out of the house with her infant, put it on the ground and attempted to return for the other children. Just as she got in the door, and beheld her little boy standing up on his pallet, calling with loud screams for his mother, the house fell in, burying the children up, and almost destroying the mother.