The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-02-12
Mrs. Maud Taylor Succumbs to
Burns Sustained In Explosion
EAST END WOMAN DIES FOLLOW
ING IGNITION OF GAS.
Was Confined to Her Bed by illness
Foul Play Suspected by Some
Police lnvestiqatinq

Mrs Maud Taylor, Of rear 81,
Seventeenth street. passed sway
last night at 1910 o'clock. at the
Ohio Valley General hospital as
the result Of burns sustained
when premature gas explosion
wrecked her room yesterday after
noon. shortly before 4 o'clock.
u was said that the gas stove
In her room was connected with
gum hose and this becoming
disengased in some way caused
the gas to fill the room sufficient
" to cause an explosion. Mrs.
Taylor was lying in a bed up-
stairs suffering from an Illness Of
two weeks duration, and IL is
thought did not notice the gas had
fIlled the room until II was too
late.
Stumbling to a window on the
second floor. and with a voice
gaspinq with the agony Of death
she cried for help. Willie Camp
bell, young lad of tender years,
was playing in the alley with sew
ersl Of his little friends. Not
waiting to ask any questions, ne
house and said, "A woman is
burning"
One Of the trucks was rushed
TO the scene and the firemen put
out the flames with little trouble,
and carried the woman to the
Srolnd floor. Officer crum-
hacker called the ambulance and
had the woman taken to the hos
pital where medical aid was rend-
cred. IL was seen at first that il
was impossible to save her life,
and the only thinq to do was TO
relieve her suffering as far as
possible.
iTer hcI,- ma. h,,,.- t..., - , o..
said that a quantity Of the fumes ba
been inhaled. Her clothing was prac
S Sicaliy burned on the body her hair wa
gone. her face charred almost beyon
iecoSnition. The room In which she wa
lying was a total wreck and the flame
from the explosion were seen leapin
Hint Foul Play.
IL was rumored that man ma
oeen seen To leap from the windows ius
as the IRE hlazed IN. hut this rumor wa
dismissed by the police department afte
questioning several neighbors and chi
dren who were playing in the alley. Ds
tsctiye Dave cleary took the case. an
should Tier" he any theory Of foul play
~ VIII be brought out al the coroner
lnNeStEattou this morning.
Inc coroner was called last night i'm
inediatelN following ner death. and IA
the body removed To- SchmcicheTs an
dertaklug uarlors where 60 was prs
pared for burial Arrangements for IN
uneral are as yet incomplete.
80. 80 A'I NdN UhifIIFu 10 a pas
tercr by the name Of John TAYLOR seN
eral years ago. but they have nor bee
hNing together for some time past. \
present his whereabouts are uubnov-
70 both relatives aud friends OF the dea
woman.
she leaves n SON. JOHNNY Tayior. n
De is known to his uloymates. To mpur
her loss. A. the time Of the TRACED
mat broke mp his home and took froI
MIN his mother. Uc was attendin
sch spl.
Returning home. Ie was appriSed n
the cruel fate that mad oveTtakcn hi
mother. and Immediately went to- IA
hospital re WAS taken in charge b.
hef sister. Mrs. Anton IupTpete. The 10
ca'ted H. survived hv her SON. ster
brother. Thomas George. and one sistt
Mrs. ANTON Lopreste.
Mrs. Taylor was 30 wears old ycstei
day and her birthday marked the clos
ing 81 her life