Morristown, Tenn. February 9 – On last Saturday night on the Miller farm, in Jefferson County, eight miles south of this place, a tenement house occupied by an aged couple, John Hopkins and wife, caught fire from a defective flue and burned to the ground. No one was near to assist the aged couple and the old lady was burned and her husband barely escaped with his life.
Source: Knoxville Daily Tribune, Wednesday February 10, 1892
Transcribed by Robert McGinnis.