Show A cordent EY hy mire TIRE fiji frit E FRANCISCO last sunday i morning a shocking shock in g accident a i happened resulting in the dea death th of a baby boy not quite twelve months old son ofa man named charles bradlee bradley Brad lol lel who with his family resided in a frame house ouse no goodsell place east of first street between bryant and hamson harrison san francisco for i several years they had used a petroleum s stove tove for cooking purposes on saturday a leak was discovered in some of the apparatus belonging to the stove which mr bradley set about repairing to prevent as he thought all danger he removed the naptha from the kettle on the stove and placed it in a tin vessel on the kitchen table he then procured a lighted candle in which he tried to heat a knife to melt a piece bece of solder to repair the leak he had leid reid held heid the knife thus but a few moments when the gas generated by the naptha was exploded by the light of the candle bradley took the vessel containing the naptha row MOW burning to try and throw it out of doors but it burned him so severely that h he let it drop on the floor and the whole place was instantly in a blaze he gave an a alarm and his wife rushed in to rescue her infant but the fire was so intense and the horror caused by the thought of the childs position so great that both father and mother lost presence of mind and became all but frantic frantie fr antic antle the whole of the rear and upper portion of the building was consumed and when the fire was extinguished and the child found most of its head andone of its arms were burned from its body it addition to this loss the unfortunate for fon people lost all their worldly possessions and both of them were severely burned |