Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — Tuts Oil in Kitchen Fire. [ARTICLE]

Tuts Oil in Kitchen Fire.

As a result of an attempt to use oil to hurry along her kitchen fire at Braddock, Pa., Mrs. Barbara Sturgent la dead, her husband, Andrew, and their son George dying. Two other children of the family, Barbara and Andrew, are badly burned. The family occupied two rooms of a tenementhouse. Mrs. Sturgent while getting the breakfast started to pour oil on tk® Mndllng wood In the stove and an explosion followed. The room was filled with clothing hung on a line to «r.