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Show DREADFUL ACCIDENT. A day or two since we published the facts of Karl G. Suisted, and his little girl being accidentally burned to death at his ranch near Warm Creek, Oneida county, Idaho, on the night of the 12th inst. We are now enabled to give the details of the horrible accident, as supplied us by Louis Garff, who thus relates them. "As Mr. Stokes and I were camped for a few days at Mr. Suisted's ranch, we were called to witness that most horrible accident that my eyes ever beheld; the burning to death of Mr. Suisted and child, three years of age. It appears that they, like many others, allowed their lamp to burn a little all night, so that they would not need to trouble about lighting it during the night. At about 8 o'clock a.m., Mr. Suisted's mother-in-law, Mrs. Chase, awoke and discovered that the light had risen and was burning badly. She called Mr. Suisted to put it out, as it looked dangerous. He arose, took the lamp, and was about to blow it out when it exploded in his hand. In a moment he was entirely enveloped in flames. Thinking more of the danger to his children than of his own, he took his little girl and carried her as far as the door, but was obliged to drop her and run to the creek to extinguish the flames around his person. The screams of Mrs. Suisted over child, which she supposed to be dead soon aroused Mr. Stoker and myself from the neighboring cabin, where we were sleeping. We soon succeeded in putting out the flames around the child and in the house, but the little girl was already burned too badly to be saved from death. When Mr. Suisted returned from the creek his appearance was horrifying; the skin and nails had entirely left his hands and feet. I dressed his wounds as best I could, while Mr. Stokes ran for medical aid. While I was dressing his wounds he spoke rationally and did not seem to feel so very much pain. He offered up to the Great Father one of the most solemn and affecting prayers I ever heard, desiring that He would preserve his wife and family from poverty and distress and raise up friends who would administer to them in time of need, for he feared that he would not be with them long. We administered to him according to his request. By 9 o'clock a.m. we had two doctors brought, who dressed the wounds of both father and child, placing a coating of white lead and oil (linseed), over Mr. Suisted's whole person, but he sank rapidly. The pit of his stomach and across his kidneys had been burned to a crisp. He died at 4 o'clock p.m., and the little girl at 11:45, same day they were burned. Karl G. Suisted leaves a wife and two children, one younger and one older than the one that was burned. He was a thorough Latter-day Saint and a man much respected by all classes of people in the part of the country where he lived. Karl Gustoff Suisted was born at Wellington, New Zealand, February 17th, 1851, and his deceased child, Elizabeth, in Salt Lake City, April 18, 1879. Both died on the 12th inst. as stated before, and were buried on the 14th, at 7 o'clock p.m.-Deseret News. |