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Show USED UK AND DDIEDTO DEATH Salt Lake, April 20. Mary Rayman, 25 years of age, a domestic employed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Isaao Booth of Mldvalo, was fatally burned at 7 o'clock yesterday morning when she used gasoline in an attempt to start a fire in the kitchen range. She was rushed to the Holy Cross hospital, but died without regaining consciousness. No one was present when tho young womau's clothing took fire but the circumstances clearly Indicated that Miss Rayman attempted to start the fire in the range with damp kindling, and that when It was slow in burning sho ponied into the stovo a considerable consid-erable quantity of gasoline In the belief be-lief that the fluid was kerosene. Then sho touched a match to the kindling and an Immediate explosion was the result. A mnac nf flrimo envoloned her and from head to foot her clothing was ablaze. She fled from the room screaming, her cries attracting the attention at-tention of others in the Booth home Thuy strove In vain to put out the fire on her garments and she fell unconscious uncon-scious on the lawn. Medical aid was summoned and the young woman was brought with all possible speed to the Holy Cross hos pltal, arriving there at 10 o'clock. She expired two hours later, it being apparent from the first that there was no hope of having her life. The body was taken in charge by Undertaker E. W. Hall and later transferred to the morgue of Undertaker C. H. Banks cf Murray, where it will remain re-main pending funeral arrangements. Miss Rayman was the daughter ot Mrs. Katie Rayman of Oklahoma City, Okla., had been a resident of Salt Lake county for but a short tlmo and had been employed In the Booth home for only a week. Miss Rayman's body was terribly burned from face to feet, her injuries being so severe that even had medical aid been at hand from the first she could not have been saved. The fire did not spread to any portion of the house. |