1955 – Feb 1, Home Fire, all children, Chuckatuck, VA — 6

— 6 Daily Messenger, Canandaigua, NY. “46 Lose Lives in Outbreak of Fire.” 2-1-1955, p. 1.
— 6 Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, VA. “Where Six Children Died.” 2-2-1955, p. 1.

Narrative Information

Feb 1: “By The Associated Press. Forty-six persons — most of them children — have lost their lives this week in a tragic outbreak of fires occurring in six states.… Virginia — Six children of Robert L. Eley, ranging from 3 to 14 years, succumbed when flames engulfed their frame home at Chuckatuck, Va.” (Daily Messenger, Canandaigua, NY. “46 Lose Lives in Outbreak of Fire.” 2-1-1955, p. 1.)

Feb 2: “This chimney [reference to photo] is all that remains of a Chuckatuck, Va. house destroyed last night by flames in which the six children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Eley perished.” (Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, VA. “Where Six Children Died.” 2-2-1955, p. 1.)

Sources

Daily Messenger, Canandaigua, NY. “46 Lose Lives in Outbreak of Fire.” 2-1-1955, p. 1. At: http://newspaperarchive.com/fullpagepdfviewer?img=55173777&sterm

Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, VA. “Where Six Children Died.” 2-2-1955, p. 1. Accessed at: http://newspaperarchive.com/fullpagepdfviewer?img=147528883&sterm=fire+chuckatuck