The evening world., 1889-12-23
EDITION
FL anne WRAPPED
Mother and Babe Fall Victims 70
The Fire Piend.
Both Are Fatally Burned by
an Exploding Oil Lamp.
The Mother Is Already Dead
and the Baby Will Die.
Tragedy Resulting from q YOumR
Mothers Foolish Vanity.
Burned to death.

Burned to death.
A happy mother and her two-year old OabS
sent TO untimely graves by licking tonRuoe
OF flame.
Thi, is the story OF an early morning
tragedy.
A policeman leisurely patrolling his beat
on Tenth avenue about 1 O'Clock this morn.
ing had his attention attracted by q brilllant
point OF light which flashed from q window
OF No. 1877 West Sixtieth street.
Tho light suddenly went out. and then ~
quickly roappeared in another WindoW.
Then 1t flashed by several other windows,
ana the policeman saw with horror that "A
was the blazing form OF a woman.
ehrieks we're proceeding from the house
and the officer dashed through the door ON
o dead run.
He found a mother and her two-yeAr.old
child wr!thing upon the floor in agony.
Their flesh was burned horribly, and vas
reelel off in long strip.
The officer Immediately dashed of for an
ambulance. and soon mother and child Wero
resting In cots In Roosevelt Hospital.
Tit burned woman was Mrs. Kate Hons
ton. She is twenty-five wears old, and abe
lived with her baby Margaret. aaod two
Year,, with her mother. Katherine Dagae,
at the number named above.
Mrs. Houston and her child attended ser.
vice Mt the Church of the Pauliat Fathers A
SiEtieth street and Ninth avenue last even
inE. returning home about 10 O'Clock.
A friend, Miss Leonard, who hvea IN
Henry street, accompanied her home.
Mrs. Dagae was reading when the trio
entered the room. Miss Agnes DaEge, her
siSteen-yesr-o.d daughter, was sleeping IN
a front room. -r
Mrs. houston and Miss Leonard entered
into All animated convorHAtion about Christ
mas and Miss Houston brought out soma
pIctrre-bo4ks which she had bought for
When thu tobiG WIS exhausted the talk
drittei TO the subject OF dancing.
Come, To-day taid Mrs. Houston,
SHOW, Hiss Leonard how we'll You can
Mrs.. Houston then turned bnch the eover
OF tug kitchen table and placed the child
There were ,tw? kerosene lamps on the
table aud the child stoOd between them.
Mrs. Dagge looked up from her reading a
this point and said, mildly:
ho,te. yon shouldn't do that. Somethina
oh, IN look out for her. &" replied Mra.
Houston, and then she commenced TO hum
The child kept time with its feet, and The
three women laughed uproariousiy at ia
..Toddy," seeing she was pleasing her
audience. redoublcd her eHertions. and the
Suddenly the child slipped and fell aRainst
one of the lamps. The globe rolled oil, and
q sheet OF lame spread out and enveioped
Then the lamp rolled from the tAble and
tell lnto hirs. Honstop's lap. She, ahrieked
been sitting and the lamp crashed to thD
floor in a. thousand pieces.
In a twink!ing Mrs. Houston was q MAS Of
flames.
She rushed through into the front room,
where Agnes was sleeping. The latter awOke
with IN affriRht4i start. She saw her sis-
bureau which was already on fire.
Agnes. Agnes" Mrs. Houston moaned.
Tho girl, with, rare presence. Of mind.
around her burning sister. Tit latter then
lRpsed into Inconsistencies
Agnes ran into the, roar room. MA
guished the blazing dress on tine child. and
blisterOd face. "
Then il was that the policeman arrived
The ambulance reached the house at j. 2B
o'clock, and when the physician in charge
examined the unfortunate mother and ehiiA
ne M fncOt H @is pSau 8 sSa0' irHiaaEEitfully busnsa
about the body. She had had nothing on
her save a light calico skirt and waiSt, and
these flashed like powder when the flames
"IIfoidyIw, was as badly burned as her
mother. The latter, died this morning %
r.aO O'Clock. ard tue child's life will Be
ended In n few hours, 20 the doctors say.
II was a Common practice, Mrs. UaRGo
told all EyESINH WORLD reporter this morn
irR. for Mrs Houston ~ place her little
daughter ON the table TO lance.
She had often been warned that an acok
dent would occur. but she never decided IL
A short time ago the child pulled 1 lamp
from a machine when the family was living
IN Wost i wenty-secand street, but no dil.
aStruus results followed.
Mrs, Hogston'a husband ls Charles Houas
tou. He IL employed at MmO. GFisWoldr
corset factory, corner OF Broadway aud
Twenty-first street.
He has been separated from his wife Tor
nearly two years, and has not yet been told
OF her horrible death. The cause 81 thk
separation il not known, even to the fan1klr,
MrS. Houston was u handsome, vel-iotDlo1
woman Of the brunette type. and ''TOddy~
Was q beautiful girl, very large for her Agos
Houston's death. Z