Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — Clothing Catches Fire at Grate. [ARTICLE]

Clothing Catches Fire at Grate.

LsJayette, lud., March 25.—Mrs. Pelle Isreal. was probably fatally burned yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mts. James Parr, while sitting in front of on open grate in the living room. She was suffering from a stroke of partial paralysis and did not notice that her dress had caught fire until she was enveloped In flames. Mrs. Parr heard her mother’s screams and, running to her, threw a rug over to smother • the flames. The woman was hurried to the hospital with her chest, face, back, hands and legs badly burned.