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Show SALT LAKE FATAL FIRE IN A SALT LAKE HOME Sali Lake. March 22 Mr'. Ethc! Brysant. 1 years of age, wife of Jo- seph Brysant of South Second . East street, was fatally burned yesterday yes-terday afternoon when her clothing . caught fire from a sheet of flame thai lilled the entire house i Gasoline, with which he was clean-I clean-I ing plumes, exploded at 12 T1 o'clock. She died at 11:45 last night. Her I husband, w ho was In the kitchen with his wife at the time, was badly burned burn-ed on his face and arms. Helen Jones, sister of .Mrs Brysant. was in a front room The wall of fire advancing through the doorway J from the kitchen, drove her out the f front way und she hurried to a telephone tele-phone and gave the alarm to the firej department and the police The flames gutted the entire ground floor of the house before they yielded to three streams of water played into the place by the firemen Upon the arrival of the firemen Mrs Brant was found In the yard with most of her clothing burned off and the flesh of her limbs aud face terribly burned. The flesh was falling fall-ing from her bauds, which she had torn in her effort. to fight the flames The thickness and closeness of the clothing about her body saved her somewhat, but the burns on her limbs, face and upper breast proved fatal. The injured woman was wrapped in a quilt and rushed to the emergency hospital in the auto patrol, whet.' Bhe was given first aid by Or Hardio Lynch Afterwards she was removed remov-ed to St Mark s hospital, where she was unable to rally from shock and Injuries Details Meager. No one seemed to know exactl DOW the tragedy was cuused or whut took place ufter the explosion Mrs. Brysant Bry-sant is thought to have made an effort to have her husband, forgetful of herself, and so getting her clothing cloth-ing all ablaze before she realized her danger The damage to the building and contents Is estimated at $7Su The advance of the fire was incredibly Bwifl through three rooms The Bry-snnts Bry-snnts conducted a small millinery shopj i and plume cleaning establishment In j a business block near their residence j lo-ph Brysant was until recently em-I em-I ployed as a sealer at the Denver & I Rio Grande freight yards. The Brv I sants had been married six years, bu' had no children. Mrs Brysant was accompanied to the hospital bj her sister Helen and by her brothers. I Waldron Jones of 2 Corliss oun and Harry Jones of Paris. Ida. Wal-: Wal-: dron stayed at the hospital at her bedside Mr. and Mrs Raleigh Jones, th mother and father of the unfortunate woman, are In Paris Ida., where they went recently on a visit. Word was sent to them Mr. Jones, the fathp". ! Is critically ill there and vvord was received here last night tha' Mra Jones dare not leave his bedside Mr i Jones conducts a rooming house at 328 South State street In responfe to the messnpe of thf' tragedy, sent to Paris. Mrs G. P ' Daniel, a slater of Mrs Brvsunt. arrived ar-rived here last night a short while before death hr.d ended the sufferings suffer-ings of the victim of the explosion Mrs Br:,snnt wag at his wife's bedside bed-side when 6he died. exercises Miss Vuna Ollerton pre- i I sided and a v ery interesting program ' of addresses aud music was render- j 1 ed. Dr. George W Middleton of Salt 1 j Lake, a former student of the uni- j versify, was present and addrr-ssed ! ihe stuciftii bodv Th.- doctor spoke 1( school days and reminiscensssB of former days In l'row He said thai the student who goes to col-lege col-lege for dress and a good time never J accomplishes much in real life. The women of the B. V U hav also edited the Whitp and Blue, the I paper and have one of the J I best tiuinbtri- that has b c ; -nt-9 ed this year. |
