| Show BURNED TO DEATH DEA Tn IN OIL EXPLOSION Hattie Griffiths Suffers Horribly Horribly Horri Horn bly and Dies in Hospital in Few Hours USED GASOLINE ON FIRE Clothing Saturated by Fluid Neighbors Badly Injured in Extinguishing Flames Miss 1156 Hattie Griffiths aged 45 years who resides at 14 H Church street while attempting to start a fire In th time kitchen kitchenS S tove sto yet yesterday erday mo morning rn I n g received burns following an explosion that re re- re suited In her death last night at the re-I re Holy Cross hospital at o'clock At nn first t It was not thought that she was fatally burned but It developed early I last night that she had breathed some of or the lire fire Miss Griffiths had started a fire In Inthe Inthe inthe the t 7 stove to e an and In order ordel to hasten hasten has has- ten the lire Ure poured on what she thought was coal oil Instead of oC getting the oi oil oilcan can site she got hold of or gasoline g and anti poured out a quantity of or gasoline When she poured this on the fire firo there thero was an explosion X os I o a. a J. J M. M Collins who resides next door leer to the Griffiths Griftiths home ran out at once Ho pulled the burning clothing from Crom tho the woman D. D D M. M Griffiths a n brother helped smother the flames by wrapping her In bedding the fire was extinguished however sho she was feaT fear fully tilly burned The Time burns that cau caused ed her death were about the face and chest Item Her rescuers were also burned Mrs l Collins and her brother D. D M. M Griffiths both oth sustained burns on the hands hand The fatal burning of oC Miss Griffiths Is significant in that a 1 similar r disaster betel the watchman at the Continental Oil on company less th than n a month ago Tho The oil stove In the office was onas knocked over oer and anal the tho watchman received burns that rl his death In less than 24 2 hoe hours ra |
