The New Hampshire Gazette

Shocking Casualty—On Tuesday evening the 6th inst. the wife of Mr J P. Barnes, of South Natick, was burnt to death She, with her only child, a little boy two years and a half old, was alone in her dwelling house, and is supposed to have fainted or fallen into the fire in a fit. When found by her brother and sister who lived in a house opposite, her head was lying in the middle of the fire, and the greater part of her body was literally reduced to ashes There was no appearance of her having struggled at all, or made any effort to extricate herself The little boy was lying on the floor, at the back part of the room nearly suffocated. The next evening, from the effects of the carbon on his lungs, he also died, leaving the affectionate father to mourn the almost instantaneous extinction of his family. —Traveller.