Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-07-14 | Page 3 | Gasoline Causes Fire

GASOLINE CAUSES FIRE Nina Miss s Colbourne Extinguishes Blaze at Hospital spital A small blaze started by bi a 8 gasoline stove caused some excitement at the hospital yesterday morning Fortunately no one was In ln Injured and owing o ng to the prompt and plucky action of Miss MI s Colburne one of the th nurses there was but slight dam damage damage age from the fire tire I The stove stoe was on the second floor ad adjoining adjoining adjoIning joining the operating op room and Dd was as used for sterilizing the Instruments I Miss M iSS Colburne co attempted to light the stove and as she struck the match th te was an explosion of oi some gaso gast gasoline gasoline I line that t at had been spilled The Th explosion did not harm the room in which it ft occurred but the plaster ceiling of the sick tick ward underneath I down causing ca sing great ex cx ment in the ward yard for a while One Oneo of o the strange features tures f was that while tiie th fire spread Immediately lately in the up upstairs upstairs upstairs stairs room Miss Colbourne who was over the stove was not harmed in ili the least She quickly seized seised the burning buning curtains and other articles of drapery and hurled burled them out the tile win window window window dow The fire department was wu called but the fire had been extinguished be before before before fore it arrived The damage amounted to only about 15 or 20 0