, 1868-07-28
one of the most terrible of the immense
number which annually occur:

Saturday night, about l 80 o'clock,
a fatal accident occurred at the house of
Thomas Daily, Esq, which resulted in
the death of two young ladies, Miss Daily
and Miss Harrington. They had been
spending the afternoon at Miss Daily's
residence. They had gone out about s
Pm. to Miss H~arrington's house, about
two hundred yards distant, returning
about II O'Clock. The fire in the sitting
room had apparently died out, and the
weather being very cold, the ladies c%onclu-
ded to burn a little wood in the stove to
warm themselves. The wood was procured
and placed in the stove over The dead
Goals, and to make it burn better they
concluded to pour some oil on the wood
before it was lighted. Miss Daily went
into the kitchen and came back with a
large can of Aurora OIL The can had
no spout, the means of pouring it being
a hole in the top of the can. She took
the cork out of the can and held it over
the top of the stove and commenced
pouring the oil. Unfortunately the APP
parently dead Goals were merely black
ened on the surface. In a momen of
time the stream of fame reached the can
of oil, and the latter exploded, dashiug
the fiery liquid all over the room, enve-
Looping the ladies in flames, and setting
fire 10 the carpets, tapestry, and every
thing in the room. The ladies', frighten-
ed and amazed, rushed into each others
arms, then broke away for safety. Miss
Daily rushed into an adjoining bedroom,
and threw herself on the bed 10 a vain
attempt to put out the flames, but only
succeeded in setting fire 10 the bed clothes.
She then rushed out again into the blaz-
ing room, was suffocated with the flames
and smoke, and fell on the floor, from
which she was rescued by the negro man
attached to the house, who, alarmed Ivy
the explosion, had four successive times
vainly attempted to enter the room, but
was each time driven back by the smoke
and fire. He finally succeeded in dashiug
IN, and stumbling over the now insensible
girl, raised her up, and in one desperate
leap was out of the apartment. Miss
Harrington, on breaking away from her
companion, had bIindly endravored to
escape from the room, and after several
Intellectual attempts at madIy cropping for
the door, had run out into the street all
ablaze. A negro man, attracted 10 the
scene by the noise, arrived at this mo-
ment, and succeeded in tearing the clothes
from the poor girl. Miss Daily was i'm
mediately carried to the house of a neigh
Dor, and Miss Harrington taken to her
fathers residence. But their fate was
sealed The dread inhalation of the flames
had numbered their days. Between 6
and 7 o'clock their spirits passed from
earth to their heavenly home. The fire
in the house was extinguished with but
little difficulty, except the many i%netfect-
ual attempts to enter the room. A dozen
buckets of water thrown in from the
door extinguished what little fire remain
ed after the oil had burned itself out"
1t is most probable that these unfor-
tunate women were clothed in dresses
made from the chief product of their sec
ton of country, and that the outer cover
ing of the bed and the tapestry of the
room were made from cotton. On refer
ring to this matter in conversation, each
IF the three nerSOnS present related his