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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, December 18, 1935 William Bailey 1911 ~ 1935 Marvin Floyd 1920 ~ 1935 Harry Lee Floyd 1924 ~ 1935 Jarrett Bailey 1927 ~ 1935 Gerald Bailey 1929 ~ 1935 Lillian Gene Bailey 1933 ~ 1935 Fire turned a Carnegie farm home into an inferno and claimed the lives of six persons at 6 o'clock Sunday morning to give the state the most appalling tragedy in recent years. Burning so fiercely that the victims, five of them children, were quickly overcome, only seven of the 13 persons sleeping in the four-room tenant home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bailey, 13 miles northwest, escaped, two of them with serious burns. The dead: Jarrett Bailey, 8. Gerald Bailey, 6. Lillian Gene Bailey, 2. All children of Mr. and Mrs. Geoge Bailey. Marvin Floyd, 15. Harry Lee Floyd, 11, nephews of George Bailey. William Bailey, 24, step-brother of George Bailey. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Bailey, others to escape the holocaust included: Lucille, 4, daughter of the Baileys. Mrs. Laura Bailey, step-mother of George Bailey. Loys Floyd, 13, brother of Marvin and Harry Lee, Herman Bearden, about 20, cousin of George Bailey. Jess Tabor, laborer. The room in which ten persons were sleeping was filled with smoke when Mrs. Laura Bailey, first to awake, gave the alarm. Unable to escape thru the burning kitchen, Geo. Bailey was forced to burst open an unused door against which a large trunk and clothing were stored. The ceiling was falling and dense smoke was choking the trapped persons as he managed to get the door open and push his wife, step-mother and nephew to safety. As he searched for the other children, the roof began to fall in and has was burned on the leg by falling timbers as the house collapsed. Young Bearden and Tabor escaped by jumping thru a window in the south room of the house where they were sleeping. Marvin Floyd failed to follow them and lost his life when he was overcome and fell on the doorstep as he sought to escape. No one can tell how little 4-year-old Lucille, only one of the four Bailey children to survive, managed to reach safety. The seven survivors, clad only in their night clothes, crowded into their car and with Geo. Bailey driving altho painfully burned, went to the home of John Monroe, a quarter of a mile away. Neighbors were soon at the scene but the frame building had burned so quickly that nothing remained and the charred bodies were taken from the smoking embers. The fire is supposed to have been caused from a defective flue or from the overheated stove. It is reported the family returned about 4:00 a.m. from a trip to Weatherford and had built a fire before going to bed. Bailey had lived in the house the past year while working as farm laborer in the community. The property belonged to G.W. Buchanan and was only a short distance from the Eschol Valley church. Funeral services for the six victims were held at the First Baptist church in Carnegie Monday afternoon by Rev. Garland Howard, pastor, and interment was made in the Carnegie cemetery. The Knight Funeral home of Mountain View had charge of arrangements, assisted by Pitcher Funeral home of the place and the Harvey Funeral home of Fort Cobb. William Bailey 1911 ~ December 15, 1935 Jarrett Bailey 1927 ~ December 15, 1935 Gerald Bailey 1929 ~ December 15, 1935 Lillian Gene Bailey 1933 ~ December 15, 1935 |
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