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Show PARALYTIC BURNED TO DEATH. Carelessly Dropped Match Causes Awful Aw-ful Tragedy. Butte, Mont. Fred Bachman, a paralytic. par-alytic. Is jad. trom burns jecolved as ho lay on a couch smoking a pipe. Lighted ashen or a carelessly dropped match llghtod a curtain, and Bachman, Bach-man, unable to movo or utter a sound, was slowly enveloped by tho flnmes. which covered him trom head to root and burned tho bedding trom under him. In nn adjoining room lay Bacluuan'i mother, also Buffering from paralysis and unable to movo hand or foot to save her son. The Are department extinguished tho flames. Bachman was a well known bricklayer and pioneer resident of tho city. Ho was stricken with paralysis a week ago. |