Show BURNED dreadful death of dora dom durant of alith valley talley last sunday night dora dom durant eleven years of age died at hush rush valley tooele thoele county under becu liar circumstances on oil tho the edth of september last she was standing in the doorway of a house which had been vacated by its tenants while in in that position there was a blinding flash and smoke accompanied by a terrific explosion the unfortunate girls clothing was set on fi fire re she retained her presence of mind however and managed to reach a spring near by into which she plunged and in that way extinguished tho the flames in which she was enveloped this thie bravo brave an and d self possessed action was not do done no in i n time to save her from being fearfully burned nearly nil all over her bd abdy but especially especial IT in the right side stile slie she lingered in great butler ing from the time of the accident until sunday evening when she finally succumbed to her injuries the quantity of gunpowder un powder that exploded is said to flave have been about thirty pounds and how it came to explode is a mystery it is stated that somo some children had been p playing lat in the building imme immediately diat e pieced preceding in the occurrence and i it ay iy is s supposed they had been using matches the tile parents of the girl william durant and wife brought t the remains of their daughter to salt lake city and they were buried in the cemetery on thursday dora dom was an extraordinary child the family formerly lived in mill creek ward and the deseret deits remembers that the girl when about five months old created something ofa sensation in this city by her extraordinary size for her age her ifer size was so remarkable that hundreds visited her home to see her at the time other death she had gained the ordinary proportions ro options ofa of a young youn woman 70 though ugh ent oid but eleven years old |