Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1913 — Girl’s Hands Burned When Stove Polish Exploded. [ARTICLE]

Girl’s Hands Burned When Stove Polish Exploded.

Nora, 16-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Baker, suffered severe burns to her left hand Monday when an explosion occurred while she was polishing the took stove, in which a fire was smoldering. Presumably the stove polish contained either gasoline or kerosene and some of this must have reached the Are. The explosion did not wreck the stove but it ignited the cloth used in polishing the stove and the fingers, palm and back of the hand very severely burned, while Mrs. Baker, who hurried to the assistance of her daughter, also suffered some bums on her hands.