Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — FATAL EXPLOSION. [ARTICLE]

FATAL EXPLOSION.

Four Little Children, Left Alone til the House, Attempt to Rekindle the Fire with Coal Oil—Two Were Killed and the Others Seriously Injured. [Wilmington'Del.) telegram.] A special from Tangier, Vat, says: 'Sunday afternoon Capt. W. L. Truitt’s wife went to Sunday-school, leaving four little children in the house. Three little girls named Cooper, from a neighboring honse . came in, and while they were playing the fire went out. Capt. Truitt’s daughter, aged seven years, put some kindliug in the stove, while another child struck a match and put it to an oil-can by accident. A terrible explosion .followed. The child who held the can was instantly killed, and a two-year old boy was so badly injured that he died in three hours. The other Truitt children and the three visitors were terribly burned, but may possibly recover. The honse was badly damaged, but the neighbors saved it from being burned. Captain Truitt, who is away on his vessel, Has not heard of the accident. Mr. Tilden has a large variety of Maltese cats, png and St. Bernard dogs at his Yonkers home. MkS. T. Df.Witt Talmaoe has a Sun-day-school class numbering 4QO in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. • 1 r "Deacon Richard Sjmith, of Cincinnati, is said to anticipate starting a new evening paper in that cifjr. » James Madison Wells, who was prominent during the reconstruction era in Louisiana, is. now old, poor, and blind.