People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — MISHAPS OF A DAY. [ARTICLE]

MISHAPS OF A DAY.

ACCIDENTS REPORTED FROM VARIOUS POINTS. •Moltne Stove Explosion at Petersburg, Va. —Indiana Young People Killed by a Runaway on Their Way Home from Church—Blown Up by Dust Explosion. Petersburg, Va., Oct. 31. —The explosion of a gasoline stove yesterday resulted in the burning to death of one woman, the probably fatal burning of a ehild and the serious if not fatal injuries of a young woman. The dead are: WHITTLE, MRS. FORTESCUE; burned to death. The injured are: Stone, Miss Lucy; seriously, if not fatally, injured. Whittle, , youngest child of Mrs. Whittle; probably fatally burned. A negro woman servant was also injured. Miss Stone was shortly to be married.