People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — MET AN AWFUL DEATH. [ARTICLE]

MET AN AWFUL DEATH.

An Invalid Fatally Burned in a Bath of Blazing Alcohol. Chicago, Nov. 8. —Literally cooked in a bath of blazing alcohol, Mrs. Mary Lasinski of 21 Wade street received injuries Sunday morning which resulted in her death later in the day. She died after hours of fearful agony. For a long time past she has been an invalid and, after sundry other means of relief had proved useless, she determined to try the effect of alcohol baths. Her first experiment was Sunday morning. As she stepped into the bath she slipped and in so doing splashed the liquid over the edge. A stream of it ran over the side and reached the lamp beneath the bath by which the alcohol was heated. In an instant the flame had crept into the bath and before the ill-starred woman realized what had happened she was up to her waist in living fire. The flames mounted and wrapped themselves round the upper part of her body. She shrieked for help and struggled to escape. In her haste she slipped buck into the bath, and by the time she could escape from the furnace she was burnt from head to foot She ran from the room crying aloud in her pain. The burning alcohol clung to her skin and she fell writhing to the floor. At last she fainted from the a £ OD .Y ar *d when assistance arrived she was so badly injured that there was no hope of her recovery. Almost every particle of skin had been burnt from her body and every movement enhanced her torture. She died an hour or two later.