The daily sentinel., 1908-03-09

. give the details of the tragic I
death of Mrs. Howard s. Bunt-
= ing, sister-in-law of Mr.. 1. N. 4
= Bunting. who is now at the be- I
= reaved home. Z
= = = = = + = 4
1t develops that Howard Bunting
Jr., who, with his sisters, visited in
Grand Junction last summer and
who is well known here. was serious
ly injured in an effort to save his
mothers life.
A negro woman who was with
Mrs. Bunting when the accident hap
pened might have saved her life, but
| it seems the negro deserted Mrs.
Bunting just at the critical time.
From the Fort Worth Daily Star
of March 3 the following account of
the accident is taken:
Tuesday morning a negro woman
in the employ of Mrs, Howard S.
Bunting of Arlington Heights went
into the wash house to prepare for
| the weekly washing. When she at
| tempted to light a gasoline stove
used for the purpose of heating wat
er, for some reason the stove would
not light and-the negro informed her
mistress that there was no gasoline.
Mrs. Bunting filled pitcher or an
open vessel of some kind with the
inflammable Oil, and, taking it to the
wash house, had just entered the
door when there was an explosion,
followed by fash. In an instant
her clothing was ablaze.
1.-The negro woman fled, screaming
at the top of her voice, slamming
the door to the wash house behind
her as she went out.
Howard, Jr., son of the injured
woman, was attracted from the res
idence by the screaming, and run
ming to the wash house hursted in
the door and seizing his mother ex-
tinguished the flames which sur
rounded her only after a hard fight
in which he was severely burned
about the hands and arms, with his
hair and eyebrows singed off.
by the time the son had the |
blaze extinguished Stuart Harrison |
and Mrs. Reiter. neighbors, had
reached the scene, and, picking up
the injured woman, took her into
the residence and summoned DIR.
Mitchell from this city. DR.. Mitchell |
made a flying trip in an automobile |
and remained with the injured wom-
an up to the %timeeof going to press.
''Mr. Bunting, who Is a director of
the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company
of st. Louis, was in that city at the
time of the accident and was immed-
lately wired of the sad occurrence. /
He leaves this afternoon for Fort |
Worth and will reach this city some |
time Wednesday afternoon. In the |
meantime the wires of the Western
Union Telegraph Company have been
placed at his disposal and he Is in |
cfnv NJ nit >rl
his wife, receiving a message from |
the physician every 80 minutes.
up until $3.50, the time of going |
to press, the injured woman is still |
conscious, but there Is no denying
the fact that she is very seriously
Thursday morning contained the fol- |
lowing announcement of the funer-
al:
ing, who died late Tuesday night !
from the effect of severe burns re-
ceived from gasoline explosion on
the previous morning., will be held
from the late home on Arlington
Heights this afternoon at o'clock.
Services will be conducted. by Rev.
c. w. Daniels, pastor of the First
Baptist church, of which organiza-
tion the deceased was a member.
The procession will leave the house'l
for Oakwood cemetery where inter-
ment will take place at about 8 pm.
"H. s. bunting. husband of the
deceased, arrived home at 9 O'Clock
last night from st. Louis, where he |
had been on business. Mr.. Bunting
left st. Louis Immediately upon re-
ceipt of the telegram announcing the
sad accident. Wires of the Western
Union Telegraph Company had been
placed at the disposal of Mr.. Bupt-
ing by the manager. who Is close
friend, and he received a telegram
announcing the condition of his wife |
every&S0 minutes. The telegraph
message conveying the news Of her
death reached him at an early hour
yesterday morning. He was met at
the Texas & Pacific passenger sta
ton by a committee of friends and
neighbors and by them escorted to
the home.
Howard Bunting. Jr.. who was
badly burned In the attempt to save
his mothers life in the fire of Tues
day morning. was reported last night
to be resting quietly and on the fair
road to recovery
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