The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-05-01
Terrible Explosion.
A GASOLINE stove EXPL0DES
WITH FEARFUL RESULTS.
The Burning Fluid Falls all Over Mrs. Nora {. Hill.
She is Featu|y Burned |nha|es the Flames
and is Seriously Injured, but Proper
Medical Treatment Saved Her Life.
From the Chronicle, Chicago, Ill

Perhaps In no case as yet recorded has the
efficiency of a popular remedy been found
50 clearly as in that of Mrs. Nora f. Hill.
While her condition, caused by a frightful
and distressing accident, places her beyond
the pale of perfect recovery, she has received
such marked relief that the story of the ac-
cident and the sufferings resulting from it,
will be of more than ordinary interest to
thousands of invalids.
vas a hale, hearty and strong woman, past
the middle age of life. "
She tells the following story:
September l, 1898, while attending to
my duties about the house, a gasoline stove
which l had used for some time, suddenly
exploded, throwing the burning fluid over
me. Before my clothes which were on fire
could be torn of, my right arm and hand
were fearfully burned. This however, was
not my most serious injury, as I had inhaled
some of the flames, and | found the inside of
my mouth blistered. My hand and arm to
the elbow were burned to the bone, and my
physician believed amputation necessary,
but after weeks of great suffering, | was
spared the operation, and | have fairly good
use of my hand and arm now.
"Shortly after the process of healing OF
arm and hand, my stomach commenced to
give me trouble. | did not then realize what
it meant. After each meal | was seized
with a cramping sensation, and then in n
few days there were frightful pains, which
threw me into clammy perspiration. For
eight months l was under the care Of my
physician, battling hard with death. l had
lost SO pounds, was becoming a mere skele-
Ton nv oppafifn n O rynna and " " arxnt
system completely shattered.
IL lost confidence in everything, was
totally discouraged, and determined to 60 to
my former home, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and have my old physician make an exami-
nation of my condition. He did so and
formed. which he said were incurable, and
were liable to produce cancer at any time.
While in Grand Rap1s the ulcers which
had formed in the stomach broke, which
produced vomiting of large quantities of
blood and pus. This confined me to a sick
bed for several weeks. When | became
sufficiently strong to get up | came back
here to die, as the doctor told me | might
last one week, possibly one month. But I
determined to make a. strong a fight as |
could, and get all the medical aid there was
in Chicago.
81 was taken bcf,-e n class If one of the
most noted and celebrated medical colleges
proved what NV phvsiciHn in Grand Rapids
told me viz, that there were gastric ulcers OF
the stomach. The opinion Of the college
physicians was that my chances Of a cure
were not one in one thousand. This was in
May 1894: in JuHc ] was taken down with
gastric fever, cansod by fresh ulcers forming,
and l lay in bed nine weeks. From Tune to
September in that year | also suffered ad.
ditionally from thirty assesses forming on
my arms AMI shoulders. produced by tn, con
dition of thu. stomach and blood circulation.
After this ! got a LITTLE better, AMI '"r, i'm.
1rovemnnt Lasted duriDr he t'll nd '~iatc.
till .~Taruarv 1895, when J bod aro.i"r i,"o
Of gastric fever. I took n grcnt mr'y Gr1"S
and opiatcs under the physilills al r";.ans