The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-06-09
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Mrs, DeuhIaF And heF nsuuhieF, MSS
William Friedman, are she sufferers
a terrible accident befell Mrs. Will
lam Friedman aud her mother, Mrs
nj their place Of residence adj
Iolning Haggarps produce store, near
the corner OF Market ANA Main streets
near noon yesterday, Mrs. Friedman
and her mother were engaged In build
Ing fire In their kitchen preparatory
10 cooking dinner, and the kIndlipg
wood belng wet, took u can nearly
filled with coal oil and unthoughtedly
poured II on the fire which was slowly
when terrible explosion fol'
lowed, throwing the burning fluid over
them which ut once hurst into flames,
The unfortunate women were enyel,
oped In flames, and terror alrlcken,
Mrs, Friedman ran through tho back
door Of llaggarpa store, making
for Main street, while the flames
Tapped her whole form w she
ran loudly shrieking, for the front
door. Colonel j, u, Simpson and Mr.,
Iiaggart were standing In the store
NJ tho time, aud both made for the
woman, The latter caught her and
threw her TO The floor, while Colonel
Simpson Jerkod OF hla coat and threw
II and some burlap aacks around tho
agonaed woman, TO smother the
flames, yet they were bursting out
aifesh whom SOME parties CHANGING 10y
the store rushed In and grabbed lot
more OF the sacks which were thrown
over the flames, extingulshIng them.
Colonel Simpson got his right hand
badly burned In assisting the woman.
On lifting tho sacks, the woman was
found TO DO completely exhausted,
having tainted away.
While this was going on, brother
OF the unfortunate woman discovered
that his mother, Mrs, Deubler's
clothes were on fire. The
screams OF the old lady
were heartrending In the exs
treme M she ran about the back yard,
Catching up blanket her son caught
her and threw II around her, thus OK
tinguishlng tho fire.
The two women were carried TO their
rooms over the store, when DIR. Locke
was called In.
Mrs. Deubor's burns, though bad,
we're not OF ~ serious u character as
those of her daughter Both OF the
old lady's arms were charred, the skin
slipping oil ut the slightest touch.
Her back was the worst burnt OF any
part of her body, being baked by the
heat.
Mr1. Ffiedman's arms We're 70 badly
hurnod that pieces OF the flesh dropped
away. Her breast WAS scorched, while
from her hips down her person was
one mass Of charred flesh. At this
writing her recovery is considered i'm
possible The body above the waist
was burned more or leas with the ex-
ception of the head, which was but
slightly singed, as was that OF her
mother,
Shortly after being put to bed
opiateS were administered, when their
cries of pain ceased.s
just why women will continue to
light fires with coal oil, after knowing
that IT has been the cause OF thousands
of deaths, 1t is hard to say.
From the manual OF the Home In
surance company of New York, the
following upon coal oil accidents In
America, will prove of interest:
Over six thousand persons persisted
In the United States, last year, victims
of Kerosene oil accidents. An average
OF one hundred and fifteen deaths per
week for u year, when scattered over
great extent of territory, does not inns
press the average individual like q sim
gle catastrophe where half hundred
lives are sacrificed by criminal neglect
or murderous parsimony. A boiler ex-
pl0sion, a iailroad collision, or an In
dian massacre, thrills the public heart,
and stirs the blood within us, but it is
only the statistian or Humanitarian,
who realizes the mental and bodily an.
guish, the appalling disasters, the
agonizing death bed scenes, that are
represented by this army of six thou
sand victims.