Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-11
TORTURED YTHEFLAMES
PRETTY MAMIE WINTERS AL
MOST BURNED TO DEATH.

Her Clothing Catches Fire and Burned
from Her BOdy-Her Face Frlghtfully
Disfigured and Her Flesh Covered with
BIisters-supposed 30 Have Fallen In
a Fit Against . stOve-Carried to St.
Joseph's Infirmary.
Miss Mamie Winters. a prepossessing
young girl Of is years, was terribly
burned yesterday afternoon. She is an
orphan and lives with her two brothers
at No. 10lH West Broad street. 1t has
been her misfortune to be subject to at
tacks Of epilepsy. Frequently she would
become dizzy, lose her balance, and fall
il not caught.
At O'Clock yesterday she was alone in
one of the upper rooms Of her home. The
colored servant down stairs supposed
that she was sitting in a chair sewing.
The servant did not know anything had
happened until she was frightened by the
agonizing cries Of the young miss
A moment later the girl, enveloped
in a mass OF flames appeared at the head
Of the stairs. More by rolling and falling
than by walking she got down 70 the
floor. Every particle Of her clothing was
ablaze, and the flames leaped up around
her face and caught the braids of hair.
Her shrieks for help were piteous and
heart-rending. The heat and flames and
smoke were soffocating and the burns
were horribly torturing.
Crazed with pain, the suffering girl
trantically snatched and tore at her
blazing dress and hair. In her frenzy she
called Tor water and begged the domestic
to do something to cool the fire that was
charring her flesh from her feet to her
head. The servant was scared, witless,
and hastily snatching up pail of water
dashed its contents over the hre-encircled
form of the unfortunate girl.
Scarcely a vestige of even her under
garments remained on the blackened and
blistered sufferer. When the cold water
touched the burned flesh the pain was
greatly intensified, and the blisters seemed
to instantly rise and spread over every
inch of her body.
Neighbors who heard the cries ran into
the house, and DR.. E. W. Kleffer, whose
drug store is but three doors below the
Winters home, was giving her all the
relief in his power within few minutes.
LInseed oil, lime water, and other usual
remedies. we're applied, and the torture
was some what lessened. Haitian hour later
DR.. Kieffer's carriage was driven up to
the door and Miss Winters was wrapped
up and tenderly lifted in and rapidly
driven to st. Joseph's Infirmary, where
she was given into the kind hands of the
Sisters.
Before she was removed from her home
the young sufferer was visited by Father
O'Hara, pastor of st. Patrick's Church.
DR.. j. NJ. Johnston was also called in, and
with DR.. Kietfer, strove to relieve the pain.
The physicians entertained some hopes Of
saving the GRIPS life, and fatal termina-
ton may be averted.
1t is supposed that Miss Winters was
sitting or standing by the stove in her
bedroom, when she was seized with an
epileptic fit and fell. In falling she
must have struck against the stove aud her
dress was ignited by the fire. AS soon as
she discovered that her dress was burn
ing she dragged herself to the door of the
room and out into the hallway, from
where she rolled down stairs.
Miss Winters has three brothers, all
young men, two being over u years old.
The accident was the sole subject OF
gossip in the neighborhood last night, and
everyone expressed sympathy for the
victim,