Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-22
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Miss Alice Morris Terribly Burned
BY Oil.
Her Injuries Probably FataI---Her Father
Badly Injured in EndeayOring to
Extinguish the Flames.

A terrible accident attended with injur
les to q young lady which in all probability
will result in her death, and also with very
painful hurts to her father, occurred at the
residence of Mr.. Henry Morris, at the south
west corner of Thirteenth and Jacob streets,
about half past FIVE o'clock last evening
The details, as nearly as could be learned
last evening, are as follows:
Miss Alice Morris, aged sixteen years,
vas in the kitchen of the residence about
the hour named preparing supper, the other
members of the family being upstairs, her
father on the first floor. Suddenly the latter
was startled by hearing
AN EXPLOSION
in the kitchen, and instincti7ely feeling that
some terrible accident had betallen his
daughter, he rushed down stairs. The
sitchen was filed with smoke and on the
floor beside the range quantity of blazing
oil and broken glass told the oft repeated
story of lamp explosion. Cries of intense
agony from the yard caused Mr.. Morris to
rush thither, and there, under the hydrant
he saw what he afterwards described as
\ blAklNu DALI Or FlhG
his daughter. The hydrant was running,
whether started by the girl in her agony, in
The hope of extinguishiug the flames, or
having been LETT running by some one hav'
ing occasion to use it previous to the acct
Dent, no one can tell Miss Morris had
crcuched beneath the spout, and was making
frantic efforts to tear her blazing garments
from her person. The father sprang to the
rescue, and with the assistance Of the run.
ming water and by pulling off his childs
garments, succeeded, although suffering
serious injuries himself in the operation, in
quenching the fire. BY this time neighbors
had hocked to the scene, the flames of the
burning oil in the kitchen were extiogui'hed
and the
WRITING AND MOANING VICTIM
was carried to her room, messengers being
1t the same time despatched for medical
aid Two physicians responded in a few
moments and an examination Of Miss Nor
ris' injuries disclosed burns of most fright
tul character distributed over her entire
person from her head to her feet She had
oeen attired in mother Hubbard, and that
garment and her uuderclothing with
the exception Of flannel petit
coat, were almost entirely consumed.
Her wounds were dressed, and late laS
night she was suffering great agony, with
the chances against her recovery, although
her physicians would not hazard a definite
opinion until TO day.
The exact circumstances attending the
mishap could not be learn d, as Miss Morris,
as above stated, was alone in the kitchen
and she was of course unable to give any
account of the matter. Her father thought,
rom an examination of the room, that the
lamp had been sitting on the mantle, near
The range Aue, unlighted, and that the oil
had in some manner became fred from the
chimney the lamp exploding and
FALLING UPON HIS DAUGHTER
while she stood by the side of the range. 1t
is difficult to conceive, however, how the
oil could have been ignited under these
circumstances, aud the most plausible the
DRY is that the unfortunate girl exploded the
lamp in attempting to light it.
Mr. Morris, in extinguishing the fire, was
irigbifully burned about the hands and arms
his left hand in particular having about all
the skin burned from the palm.