Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-25
ANNISTON.
Two Negroes Fatally Burned Within a
Few Hours of Each Other.

Two Negroes Fatally Burned Within a
Few Hours of Each Other.
Admission, Ala. Dec. 24-(spec1al Corre-
spoHdance 1.-Two negroes in South An
nfston were probably fatally burned yes
terGay.
The accidents formed peculiar coinci-
dence. They occurred about three or
-four hours apart, within block of each
other. in precisely the same way and
the victims are said to be cousins.
One of the parties burned, and the first,
was a little 4-year-old girl named Sallie
Shelley a sister of Parker shelley, the
well known colored pootblack. The
child's mother left her and her sister, just
a year older, and came up town to DO
Some trading about 10 o'clock yesterday
morning A negro man was left in the
room with the children and in an ad1oin-
ing room was a negro woman ironing
some clothes The mother had been
gone nearly an hour, and the negro man
was in the next room talking to the girl
who was ironing when a coal of flre
popped from the CRATE and rolled on the
dress Of Sallie. the younger child, VINO
was seated on the floor near the hearta
The dress quickly ignited and the child
began scrca ming. Finally the little one
became SO frightened that she ran out
of the house, the wind tanning the H2me S.
into a still greater blaze. Some negroes
who were standing near caught her ana
jerked the burning clothes from her but
not before she had been horribly burned
q bout the face, body and arms. Her
burning sleeves had horribly rooster and
blistered her arms and when the sleeves
Were pulled off the partially cooked SKIN
ca me with them
The child was wrapped up and taken
in the house and a physician Summoned
He made an examination and decided
that she could hardly live as she had
inhaled the flames.
The other victim was q young negro
woman named Pearl EistOn, who lives
just about block from where the Shell
leys do. About 230 or o'clock, while
standing near q blazing crate, her cloth.
ing caught on fire and she, too, rushed
from the house, the very thing she should
not have done. The flames blazed higher
and fiercer as she ran screaming TOWARDS
a neighbours. She was caught and en-.
tirely disrobed by excited relatives and
neiehbors in frantic efforts to render her
some assistance.
She. too, was very severely burned, and
it is believed that the injuries viii prove
fatal, but she and the burned child We're
both alive al 10 O'Clock last night.
The work of erecting the main building,
warehouse and cottages for the Gold
Medal Irvine mill in the northern por-
ton Of the-city is progressing nicely.
The warehouse walls are almost nm
ished and the walls of the mill building
itself are about completed with the ex-
ception of the upper part of the two
story portion of the building. This two
story portion is 5Sxl0S feet, and the walls
are about up to the first floor. The main
building and warehouse are being erected
by Thompson Bros of birmingham, and
under the eye and direction of Superin-
tendent Sinclair. the work Is being sub
stantially and handsomely done. They
will complete the brick work next week
if nothing binders.
j. c. Thompson superintendent for A.
d. Simpson, of Gadsden, the contractor
is getting along nicely with the cottages.
Five or six are ready for the roof now,
and the entire eleven will be completed
by February 1.
The placing of machinery in the mill
building will begin in January.
The work of boring the well has been
suspended for several days on account Of
a break in the machinery, but boring Will
begin again in a few days. The well Is
now about 100 feet deep. -
Il. j. O'Brien & Bros. have done some
handsome and substantial street grading
out there.
All the work is being done under the
supervision of Mr.. Charles M. Noble, who
represents the company carefully and
well.