Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-03-27
SECOND EDITION.
DEADLY OCEAM OIL.

The CorOner'S inquiry Into the
Cause of john Sauerlander's
Death--The Jury Condemns the
Oil-Other Interesting Facts.
The Coroner's inquest on the body o
John Sauerlander, who was so fatally
burned on Tuesday night, was resum'
ed at Undertaken Palmer's office last
evening with a large nunber of wit
nesses to be examined and slow
writing Secretary to take the testimony
Owing to this latter fact the inquest
was purlonged much more than il
otherwise would have been.
Frank R. Csrswsll, the first witness
examined last night, testified to hearing
q woman scream, "frs, fire !" on the
night Of the burning and ran up Frep oh
street. Just above Sauerlander's house
he saw a woman, (Mrs. Sauerland,
lying on the pavement bleeding pro
fuseiy. A man had put the FIRE out.
He opened the door of the house and
met Sauerlander who exclaimed, "For
Gods sake get q doctor; l dent know
what has become Of my poor wife ana
child, it was that COMPOUNDED lamp
that did it, and am almost burned to
pieces" the witness went for doctors.
Mrs. Phoebe Braunstins testified
that she lived near and was called to
Sauerlander's about 1l.30 o'clock. She
found the man walking up and down
the room covered with blood, while
Mrs. sauerlander was being cared for
by Doctor Blocksom, he begged for
some one for Gods sake to come to him,
and witness went to him and tried to
wash of the blood but could not as hs
bled SO profusely; after physicians had
dressed his wounds she asked him how
the accident occurred; he said he had
gone up stairs carrying the child. he
lay the child on the bed in the middle
room and started into the front room
to prepare to retire; just as he hurried
from the bed the lamp in the hand of
his wife, who was coming up stairs, ex-
ploded and the oil few all over them
he ran into the front room and got a
blanket, which he wrapped about him,
thinking 1t would put out the flames
and prevent the child from catching
Ire II II ran so~"ru mn ne also SAID
they must not condemn it as he had
used it for a long time, and it had gone
of through his wife's carelesssness in
hanoling Ine lamp
Dr. l.: T. Dusn gave out mule testl-
mohy ABOUT the acsioent: when ne
Went 10 the mouse ne helped care for
the vlctlms, ana tnen ASKED what kind
OF OIL mad peen used; Delng told Ocean
vi ne look some IN tea cup and held
ahgnteo match wltn'n three quarters
Oh an lnGn OF the surface; 1t at once ig-
nited. The doctor also stated TO the
jury that ne nao report made some
ten years ago by citizens committee
appointed 10 examine all the burning
OILS IN the clty' which characterized
ocean vi as very explosive, when COM
ing IN contact with air, and very inha'
maeie' Inc tests which had teen put
TO the oil by that committee was SINH
IaI 70 the one ne mad tried, and the re-
suit was similar. He really thought
Inc OIL as dangerous rs gunpowder.
Dr. hlrchner corrotorated DR.. Bush
with reference to the test OF the oil, ex-
cept that he thought the oil took fire
when the match was two inches away.
ne stated TO the Jury that about one
tnlro OF the sur aceiot Mr.. Sauerlander's
BODY was burned,and his back was char
req; on account OF the large surface
Durneathere was no reasonable hopes Of
ms recovery owlngIto the theory Of ply
siclans thai II more than one-third Of q
persons body Is burned they will die in
nineteen casts out OF twenty. Sauerlan-
DER oled Just "a hours after he was
burned.
Dr. Blocksom corroborated the tes-
timony of Doctors Bush and Kirchner.
sergeant Dolan, John Allen and L.
u. Preston testified to rendering SER
vices soon after the fire.
Alexander A. Laws, sworn--I am in
speotor OF burning oils for Wilmington;
II Is my duty to test all oils used for
Illuminating purposes; all such oils
must by an ordinance stand test of
llo0 1anrenhelt, ocean oil will not
stand a greater test than CO., and it il
so dangerous. even at that beat boro
, "0a' na'e
no'or coulpletelY tested II, the ocean