Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1920 — HAS BADLY BURNED ARM. [ARTICLE]

HAS BADLY BURNED ARM.

George Davisson of Barkley town*; ship is nursing a very sore left arm the result of burns received in putting out a fire in his home Monday evening caused by the explosion of a coal-oil heater. 1 , 1 Mr, Davisson had been using an oil heater to warm his house during the chilly days. When be left the house Monday evening to go to the barn to do some chores the heater was burning all right, but Mr. Davis-' son had not been out* of the house long until he noticed' a heavy black smoke coming out. He hurried to the house and discovered that, the oil heater had exploded and that the interior of the living room was on fire. Mr. Davisson was a lone but managed to put the fire out after a hara fight. Much of the furniture of the living *oom was ruined. The newly papered walls and ceiling were made black by the fire and smoke. * In fighting the fire Mr. Davisson had his left arm very severely burned. He was .burned some on the left side of the face also. His injuries were dressed by a Rensselaer physician and he is getting along very nicely but' his burns are quite painful. Edd J. Randle was in Chicago Wednesday. '