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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, ead from burns received as he lay on a couch smoking a pipe. Lighted ashes or a carelessly dropped match lighted a curtain, and Bach man, unable to move or utter a sound, was slowly enveloped by the flames, which covered him trom head to foot and burned the bedding from under him. i In an adjoining room lay Bachman's mother, also suffering from paralysis and unable to move hand or foot to save her son. The fire department extinguished the flames. Bachman was a well known bricklayer and n pioneer resident of the city. He was stricken with paralysis a week ago. |