Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1904 — FATAL ACCIDENT AT GOODLAND. [ARTICLE]

FATAL ACCIDENT AT GOODLAND.

Mrs. Frank Hefferlin and two-year-old child met death in a terrible form at Goodland on Thursday afternoon of last week. It is supposed she was starting a fire in a heating stove with gasoline, mistaking it for coal oil, and that there was a smouldering fire in the stove. The two-gallon can exploded, throwing her several feet from the stove, blowing out the windows and enveloping the room in flames. The unfortunate woman was dead when found but the baby lived several hours. Frank Hefferlin was formerly of this county, a eon of. John Hefferlin, and his wife was formerly of Brook. They had resided in Goodland only a few months.