Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-14
BURNS KILL CHO|RC|R
Mother AbIaze, Tries to Save
Daughter.
MAY GO MAD IF SHE LIVES
Victim of Tragedy Was Protege of
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont.
MEAD0WBR00K CATASTROPHE
Husband and Father Hurls Both
Women Into Trough Of Water,
But Too Late.
MEAD0WBR00K CATASTROPHE

| NE" YORK, September 14.-Withi
less than mile Of the fashionable Mead
OVERLOOK Club. at Meadowbrook, L. L.
where men and women socially prom,
nent were making merry lac Saturda,
night young girl was burned to death
her mother was so injured trying to saw,
her that she probably will become insane
ana the husband and father in his efforts
10 rescue Doth from death received severe
| burns.
Inc family involved consisted Of David
snyder his wife and Carrie. their eight
een-year-old daughter. Carrie, a hand
some girl. who was we'll known to the So
ciety men and women OF the exclusive
club. sang in the Meadowbrook Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which Mrs. A. H. P.
Belmont Is a member.
ABOUT 10 o'clock Saturday night Carrie
went to the kitchen to prepare a late re-
past. She lighted the fire, but 1t did not
burn quickly enough. and she got a can
hlled with oil and poured some OF the
MUD on the burning fagots The can ex-
plooeo, Oil scattering over the young
woman's garments, and, all afiame. she
ran shriekins into the rear yard
Mother Pursues Burning Girl.
Mrs. Snyder. hearing the cries, dashed
downstairs. and, running after her daugh-
ter. she cried:
Drop on the ground and roll over. Car
RE! Drop. girl! I'll get blankets."
But the girl continued to run and broke
through brambles and bushes, finally
reaching the outskirts Of the farm.
Mrs. Snyder overlook her daughter and
Threw her arms about her. vainly trying
to smother the flames, which In a second
communicated % IA
woman's garments.
snyder, big. sturdy man, without a
nerve in his body, heard the shrieks and
rushed from the house. Ahead Of him.
through the bushes, he saw the tell-tale
glare. and. crushing through all obsta-
cles, reached the spot where his wife and
daughter stood.
Hang on to herr he beloved to his
wife as he neared the pair. "I'll do the
rest"
In few moments Snyder had wrenched
the women free. and, although suffering
excruciating pain from the flames that
1ickered over his face and hands. he ran
20 a big watering trough with his daugh-
Ter In his arms and plunged her in. He
urned the girl over several times. extin- |
the flames, and then sped back |
% where his wife was making futile at
empts to beat out the fire on her dress.
filings Wife, Too, Into Water.
NrdSplns the woman In his arms, the |
arfner staggered back to the trough and |
lung his wife into the water. He i'm
nersed her completely and then pulled |
Ter forth and laid her on the ground |
Both women were unconscious. Still, |
With the nerve" and good judgment that |
him. the man fairly flew |
o the roadway and painted up to the |
house of DR.. Rae Of Meadowbrook He |
md the doctor ran all the way back and |
he physician and farmer ripped off the
'urned clothing and applied soothing To-
ions to the bodies Of the women.
Snyder never uttered q moan during all
his time. He worked grimly with the
Octor until neigfIbors arrived, and then
e almost collapsed.
Yesterday the girl died. Her mother,
I the same room, swathed In bandages,
aved and wept. and the consulting ply
Icians called to aid RI. Rae say that il
he lives she probably will be devoid Of
eason