The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-28
A SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
Fatal Results of a Coal Oil ExplO-
sion at Mt. Pleasant.

Tennyson's Enoch Arden is to be
played here on Thursday night by Mr..
More Johnson, assisted by good COM
pany of Utah Stars.
To say the Presidential campaign has
begun here may sound big for Mt.
Pleasant, but the Cleveland and Harri-
son hats and badges and the tariff talk
give indisputable evidence of the fact.
De LaRosa's circus here. on Friday
night was pronounced an entire success
by the people and no doubt also by the
managers, tor they carried away good
sum of "bucksheesh." -,se
Educational Institutes" is a theme
much discussed by the teachers OF this
county at present. Organize your in
stitute-an imperative necessity-let the
discussion follow or be discontinued.
This is the nineteenth century; pro-
gress is its motto, activity and develop
ment is watchwords.
Deputy Marshal Bennett arrested
Bishop Spencer, ,,of Indianola, and MAIDS
Jensen, of this place, on charge of U.
c. They were brought before Commits
sioner Zabriskie on Wednesday, and az
placed under 5000 bonds.
On the 18th and 10th the quarterly
conference of this stake convened III
the large bowery on the church square.
Apostle F d. Richards, Elder r. 5.
Richards and the stake authorities were
present, giving timel and spirited
instructions to tbs large gathering OF
Saints relative to their temporal and
spiritual we'll beng. 1t was q most
excellent conference.
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
This, Sunday afternoon most ap-
palling accident happened at the resi-
dence of Mr.. L. J. Jordan, to three OF
his ,boys-David,,, aged s, Guy, 6, and
Alvin, 4; also to Geo. Garner, a oeau-
titul little girl aged 4, and cousin tC
the bows. Behind Mr.. Jordan's dwell
ing is the coaI-house, in and near
which these children were playing.
They poured some coal oil from half
gallon can on the floor and lighted II
with match. Immediately the oil IN
the can, by some means also became
ignited, causing loud explosion, which
with the screams of the burned children
could be heard five blocks away. The
relatives. assisted by neighbors and
by two ladies who were passing and
were first to see the children, extln-
guished the flames as soon as possible.
Medical aid was procured and every
thing done to alleviate the intense
40 mics of the little Sufferers. Mr.. Jor-
dan was away at Spring City bui
reached home soon after the dreadful
occurrence to see his two bright boys and
lovely niece in a most horrible and sick
ening condition. Mrs. Garner. tie
little girls mother, was sick at tbs
time but she and her sister, the boys
mother, are almost Wild with grief
Alvin, who was jnst inside the door o.
the coal house, when the match wa!
applied, stepped back some distance anC
escaped with his hair slightly slneed.
David and Guy we:e near the door
outside. and got struck forcibly witt
the flying flames of Gil, both being
burned badly, especially Guy. who's;
face, arms and body are in terribl,
condition, while the poor little girl, sit
ting near the door, was blown dis
tancs of fifteen feet by the terrific
force OF the heated streams of sput
tering, flaming fluid. The crue
flames deYoured her clothing and LEFT
the surface of her whole body. from tn,
forehead to the parts of the limbs pro
tected by her shoes, a mass of burned
and, in some places, roasted flesh. He
forehead, eyelids, nose, chin, lips ant
gums are most terribly burned. She il
apparently in an unconscious condl.
ton, the boys know all that is going OF
about them and of course are grea
sufferers, though Dr.. Lindley is doing
all he can to relieve their pain.
LATER-The little girl died at 9.3i
pm S. II. A.
Mt. PLEASANT, August 26, 1888.