The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-24
FLAMES TAKE LIFE
OF POPULAR GIRL
MISS CORA LOU SOLOMON, GUEST
AT THE HOME OF MISS SARAH
HYDE, WAS HORRIBLY BURNED
AT A CRATE FIRE-FUNERAL IN
VIENNA.

One of the most deplorable deaths
that has ever come to Cordele occurr-
ed Thursday night about Z o'clock,
years, one Of the community's most
accomplished and attractive young
girls, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. R. B.
Solomon, and student of the O'Neal
High school in the graduating class,
was burned at the home OF Mrs. n.
C. Hyde, on Eleventh avenue.
Her clothing caught fire from an open
CRATE. She wore a dress of light fab
brio and the flame quickly enveloped
her.
The only occupants of the house at
the time besides her were Miss Sarah
Hyde and j. @. Spires, young man.
Both young Spires and Miss Hyde
were very painfully burned about the
hands when they attempted to extin-
guish the flame. They pulled down
a pair of portieres in the hall and
wrapped them about Miss Solomon,
hoping by this means to smother the
flame, but this was to little avail.
o. S. Bazemore and l. T. Murrah,
neighbors, came to the young ladys
assistance and the burning clothing
was torn from her, though not until
after her entire body had been Sc
verely burned and her limbs and head
most painfully blistered.
Miss Solomon was spending the
night at the home of Miss Hyde, a
school girl friend With Miss Hyde
and young Spires, she was in the par
lor, playing the piano, Saying that
her hands were cold, she went into
the bed room to warm them before
the CRATE. AS she bent over the fire
her clothing was ignited. Her screams
as she ran into the hallway attract
ed Miss Hyde and Spires and they
Immediately rendered all aid possible.
Physicians were quickly summoned
and they held out no hope from the
first to the relatives and friends for
the recovery of the young lady.
Though suffering excruciating pain,
which the physicians could not allie
viate, Miss Solomon bore up bravely
in her agony and did not murmur a
complaint Her composure was re-
markable.
Mrs. Solomon when informed OF
the accident of her daughter, was ter
ribly shocked. She said that she had
felt some indescribable premonltion
that her daughter would be safest at
hame, and after calling her over the
phone and asking her to come home,
at which time the young lady prevail
ed on her to let her stay at the home
of Miss Hyde for the night, she sent
a relative in an automobile to request
her to come home. The young lady
finally secured her mothers consent
to remain. Mr. Solomon, who is a
travelling man, was located IN Fltz-
gerald by long distance telephone. He
arrived in the city on the midnight
train. Miss Solomon was most low
able young lady and had numerous
friends. She would have graduated
from the O'Neal High school in June
and her seventeenth birthday would
have occurred next April.
The remains were carried to Vienna,
the former home of the family, Thurs
day afternoon and interment occurred
at 3 o'clock. Funeral services were
conducted by Rev. j. H. Coin, pastor
of the First Baptist church OF this
city, of which Miss Solomon was
member
A large concourse of friends OF the
young lady and family went by auto
mobile to Vienna to attend the fun
eral services. School was to have
closed Friday at noon but was dismiss
ed Thursday at noon out Of respect for
the young lady. She was president
of her class, and many of her school
mates attended the funeral.