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Show MRS. M. LA iVIAR IS fATALLY BURNED Started a Fire in a Rubbish Heap When Her Clothes Became Ignited and Flames Enveloped Her Entire Body Street Car Motor-man Motor-man Rushed to the Aid of the Burning Woman. While starting a bonfire this morning morn-ing In the rear of her store, at the corner of Monroe avenue and Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street, Mrs. M. La Mar was so tcrlously burned that lier death is considered to be only a matter of hours. Flames from tho burn.ng rubbish rub-bish enveloped the woman and Ignited her clothing, which was almost entirely entire-ly burned off her body before the fire was extinguished. The accident occurred about 10. 30 this morning. .Mrs. La Mar was cleaning clean-ing the yard In the rear of her grocery gro-cery and had gathered the pieces of paper, fragments of boes and other litter common behind stores, upon a pile and lighted It with a match. Suddenly Sud-denly as she watched the bonfire, a tongue of flame shooting out caught her apron and skirts and the next moment the woman's clothing was a mass of fire. The woman ran across Twenty-fifth street without any reason except that of wild and hopeless fear. She passed directly In front of a Twenty-fifth street car, and tho motorman, see.ng the woman's awful predicament. stopped the car and, pulling off his ccat, sprang to her reacue. He threw his coat about her and, by beating the llames with tbe garment, succeeded In extinguishing the fire. 1 Mrs. La Mar did not lose consciousness, conscious-ness, and when her clothing had ceased burning she was ablo to walk across the street to her home. A physician was Immediately summoned, sum-moned, but expressed no hope for the woman's recovery. Nearly all of Mrs. La Mar's outer garments were completely com-pletely burned away, and tbe under- 1 clolhlng was charred and blackened by the heat. All the lower portion of her body was burned and the arms and face nro a mafs of blisters. Tbe woman's corsets saved a part of her body from the flames She was not taken to the hospital, but is being treated nt her home. Mrs. La Mar is a widow and Is 47 years old She has three children, a daughter and two sons. She has, for a considerable length of time, conducted con-ducted a grocery at the corner of Monroe Mon-roe avenue and Twenty-fifth street, and Is very well known In Ogden. |