Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-28
BURNED AND MANGLED.
TWO MOST SHOCKING ACCIDENTS
ON YESTERDAY.
A Young Lady Burned by Blazing
Coal Oil, and Man Man
gled by Cars.

About 3:45 P. NJ. yesterday kerosene
can exploded at 1912 Tenth street, in {
house owned by f. E. Reichart, and occu
pied by Lewis Winters, and the building
was soon in flames. The stove was in {
room occupied by Misses Luzetta and Lily
temporarily sojourning in the city, while
attending the Sacramento Business College
The young ladies were both badly burned
by the escaping fluid, and Mrs. Lewis Win.
tiers was also badly injured.
An alarm of fire was sounded fe,s min
utes after the catastrophe, and fire engines
l, and 3, the Hook and Ladder Company
and the hose carts promptly arrived upon
the scene and commenced active work.
Meantime the injured ladies had been
removed from the house to A. C. Tufts
drugstore, on the corner of Tenth and ]
streets, where physician was summoned
to administer temporarily in the alleyia-
ton of their suferings. The Misses kreeger
were later removed to the State House,
where they are now under medical attend
ance
The fire started in lower room in the
rear of the building. 1t extended to the
houses on either side, and that the fierce
flames were subdued without greater dam
age than was done was due to the prompt
and efficient service of the Fire Depart
ment
The damage to the owners of the three
buildings is reported as follows: F. +.
Reichert, 81 600, insured in the Liverpool
and London and Globe, Coleman & Co.,
agents; A. Scroggs, $500, insured in the
same; John Bellmer, 81 900, insured in a
company for which Carl Strobel is agent.
THE INJURED LADY's STATEMENT.
To an intimate acquaintance who was
permitted to call last evening Zetta Nav
kreeger, the young lady so seriously
burned, stated that she and her older
sisters, Lille and Lettie, were attending
school in the city. After the days recita-
tons were over Lille and Lettie went to
the market for meat, and Zetta went d.
rectly TO their rooms to prepare dinner.
She lighted the fire in a coal.oil stove,
placed thereon kettle of water, and then
donned dress of light material Soon
atterward, in changing the griddles the
skirt OF the dress touched the flame, and in
second she was enyeloped in sheet of
fire.
AT this moment the sisters returned, and
taking in the situation at glance Lille
sprang through the open door to her
sisters aid, at the same time slamming il
shut to close Lettie ont, the door someway
fastening itself. Zetta ran to tub of
water on the porch, passing on her way a
can of coal-oil, which caught fire from her
burning dress and exploded. Not finding
the relief sought for in the tub, she ran to
the yard, where Lille finally succeeded in
smothering the flames by wrapping her in
sheet caught from a clothesllne.
Both girls were seriously burned. Their
mother was telegraphed for at once Lii
lies injuries are about the hands and face,
while those of Zetta extend over the face,
neck, arms and lower extremities. When
seen last evening the pain, which had been
excruciating, was somewhat alayed by the
use of morphine and by her being kept in
| Dath-tub constantly immersed in warm
water, the more thoroughly to exclude the
air. While approaching the dangerous
character of her burns, Zetta cheerfully in
sfsts on her ability to weather it through to
an early recovery.
At a late hour last night Miss Zetta, under
the influence of anesthetics, was appa-
reptly suffering but little pain. Her con-
dition, however, is considered very critical.
ANOTHER STORY
There are other rumors about to the
effect that the stove was one in which
wood was used for fuel, and that the un-
fortunate young lady was in the act of
pouring some coal-oil upon the wood to
hasten the fire, when the can exploded.