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The home of John Mathis, eight miles north of Mount Vernon, is pictured in this Republic file photo. The farm was the site of a triple homicide nearly 40 years ago. (Chris Huber/Republic)
MOUNT VERNON, S.D. It was an ugly scene at the Mathis farm outside of Mount Vernon Sept. 8, 1981.
When police were called to the location that night, John W. Mathis was sitting on a bed in the metal shed he and his family were living in after a pair of fires had destroyed their home earlier in the year. His left arm was bleeding from a gunshot wound.
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No one was injured in a house fire in downtown Mitchell on Sunday night.
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The house at 614 N. Rowley Street was engulfed in flames on Sunday night in downtown Mitchell. No one was injured in the house fire. (Matt Gade / Republic)
No one was injured in a house fire on Sunday night in downtown Mitchell.
At approximately 6:30 p.m., the Mitchell Fire Division responded to a house fire at 614 N. Rowley St. in Mitchell.
The occupant of the house escaped unharmed from the fire but the house is a total loss, according to the Mitchell Chief of Fire & EMS Marius Laursen.