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Show A Woman Bcrnku to Death in the Street. About four o'clock p.m. yesterday, in Cohoes, a young lady named Elmira McKee, residing with her mother and sister at No. 31, Mohawk Mo-hawk street, was seen rushing into the street enveloped in flames. It seems that she had prepared a stove with wood, and had used kerosene to aid the kindlings. She set the can of kerosene ker-osene upon the stove and lighted the fire. Just at this moment she thought of a little boy who had been left in her care during the day, and had once before be-fore came very near falling into a deep ditch running behind the house. She immediately ran down stairs, found the boy and returned. Meantime the fire had rapidly blazed up, and had melted the soldering at the bottom of the can. As she took hold of the can to lift it off, the bottom dropped out and the heated oil ran over the stove, a portion of which was red hot. An explosion immediately took place, hurling the boiling liquid all over the room, and over the entire front of the poor girl, except her face, which teems to have escaped. She at once rushed into the street, and ran to the door of a saloon next door but one, where an old man was standing, and took hold of his arm as if to seek aid. He seems to have been frightened, and to have started back from the flames. She then started out upon the sidewalk, exclaiming,"0, I am burning to death, will nobody help me ?" ihe then walked about twenty-five feet, to the stoop of Whittaker's barber shop, where she fell. Some persons at this point began to beat out the flames with their coats and a mat that wrs lying on a stoop near by. One person, even as if to force the ludicrous into the midst of the most fearful horror, put a basket bas-ket over the head of the burning girl. A man named Michael Long, who saw the woman in flames at a distance of half a block from where she was standing, daitcd into a barber-shop, obtained a quilt, and was the first to do anything effectual in putting out the flames. Either from ex-csivc heat or from bic'ithiiii.' in the smoke and vapor, he found himself in a fainting faint-ing condition itniucdiatcly after. He however was soon restored. I!y the burning, and through the efforts of tho-e who were endeavoring to slop ths flames, the clothing of the wrctrli-ed wrctrli-ed girl was completely n moed. So intense was the heat that her -'"ek-iiiL's wr-re fumed cleanly from her ie-s ! down t j where they wctc corJined !.y her sh ies. Whi'e ciivel-pwl in flamo and afterward, she kept cal'm.' f'-.r Lit sister and upon a youn' man to whom she was in a few days to be mairied. One of the most singular thitiirs about this sad orvurrenee was the retention re-tention of her right mind, an 1, after the burniuir, her comparative freedom from pain. During the two or t!.r-e hours remaining to her, she gave a f ull and cir'-utiistantia' account of the events preceding the exp!oM"n. and spoke of other matter in a perfectly rational way. I f er injuries secrn mo-t iortu-na"e!y iortu-na"e!y to have rendere 1 her jiKXipablt of the1 intense sucrinr; she otherwise mu-t have eniurel. Am-jng other thincs, she said that .-he thought she could r. : have breathed in the fiatnes. hecause her mouth was not .-ore. hut the pecs CiS to whom she wa- talking e-'u'.d see that her tongue w.is Liack-eiel. Liack-eiel. nrrl the :io of i; ever, "hap-ed, |
