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Page 35 Bessy (Bulah’s sister) went to the store and got cotton for bunting and Vaseline. She spread Vaseline over the burns then wrapped them up in the cotton and somebody took the boys to the Pierre hospital. I guess it took the doctors & nurses almost all night to get the cotton out of the scorched flash so they could do something for the burns. I don’t know how the boys lived but they did. Don’t know what happened to Roy but Bill lives in Ft. Pierre. I think you have met him. As he grew up his hands improved. The right hand never got to where he could do much with it but the left hand and arm developed like steel. He couldn’t get in the service during the war so he worked in oil fields from California to Alaska and I guess he was as tough as any of them and tougher than most. One thing that burned in the fire was grandpa Glessner’s Ford. It was one of the very early ones and never did work good. It had a windshield but no top or doors on the sides. Just open spaces to get in. it was a four cylinder motor but had two blocks. Two cylinders each. Wasn’t much value at the time but would be an antique now. |