Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-14 | Page 15 | Scouts Rescue Woman, 81, as Flames Consume Dress

Mishaps Trail Her but She Be Bears Bear's Charmed Life I S 'S r fr A I. I l 4 I t l p j Marion Harwood Heard the Cries c I dg S I 4 c k 2 George Snook 1 Smothered Flax Flames es ft 4 t c g w i i c- c r I f 5 r 4 I 14 q r is Am M i r. i t Mrs 1 Amelia Tempted death twice Scouts Rescue Woman 81 As Flames Consume Dress Mrs Amelia Recovering From Sever Sever Severe Se Se- ver vere Burns Caused by y Cleanup Bonfire Mrs Amelia 81 04 East Eat Twenty-first Twenty South street was recovering at her home Tuesday from first second and third thin degree burns suffered when her clothing flamed as she worked over a bonfire Monday 4 Mondays Monday's was Mrs second brush with death in two years In D December ember 1934 1931 she was was critically injured when an automobile automobile automo automo- bile struck her in front of her herh home me At that time her life was despaired despair of but she pulled through to be saved from rom death by fire Monday when two scouts extinguished he her blazi blazing g clothing Nor have fire and automobiles been the only hard luck of this aged woman woman in the last several y yrs years rs When struck by the tho autom automobile automobile auto auto- m mobile sh she was recovering from a fractured right arm suffered in a fall on faU-on on Seventh East street Dress Burned An Away Avay ay Marion Harwood 19 10 2163 Third East street and George Snook 20 2023 Third East street streets saved Mrs life Monday They were passing by when her cries attracted their attention They found her grasping a fence a brisk breeze fanning fl flames mes which enveloped her They smothered the flames with a rug Mrs dress was burned completely from her body The sleeves cs of her under clothing were also consumed The aged woman had been raking and burning leaves in her front yard Has Chance Chanco to Live o Mrs was carried into her home and a physician sum sum- She was found to be suffering suffering suffering suffer suffer- ing from burns on her back legs arms and breast She is given a fair fairchance fairchance chance for for recovery The aged woman woman spent a fairly comfortable night Monday and is Inno Inno in inno no danger of death said a daughter daughten daugh daugh- ter ten Mrs D. D H. H Fowler Harwood and Snook are both star scouts and have studied first aid extensively Harwood is a member of Explorer Scout troop No of the Wells L. L D. D S. S ward and Snook now a C C C worker on furlough from the Moon lake camp is a former form form- er member of Boy Scout troop No 27