Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — Clothes fired by Explosion. [ARTICLE]

Clothes fired by Explosion.

Miss Saran Gehring, aged 38, was burned to death at Logansport, Ind., by the explosion of a lamp, her body being burned almost to a crisp within fifteen minutes after the accident occurred. Her foster mother, Mrs. Jennie Gehring, ana her uncle attempting to extinguish the flames were severely burned. Miss Gehring was sitting at a sewing machine under a hanging lamp, the fastening of which pulled out The lamp fpli on Miss Gehring’s head, knocking her to thd floor and exploded.