Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1901 — Little Child Terribly Burned. [ARTICLE]

Little Child Terribly Burned.

The home of Wm. E. Jacke, 6 miles southeast of Rensselaer, was thp scene of a very dangerous and most distressing accident last Friday. Their five year old daughter Florence, seems to have been putting paper or some other inflammable substanoe into the store, and the flames reached and ignited her clothing. She ran into the next room where ajsister was sick in bed, and flung, herself against the bed. Then ran out into the yard where her mother was, and she caught her in her arms and succeeded in putting out the fire. She was terribly burned, however, all over the body from the waist up, both front and back, and also the right arm. Dr. Hartaell was called and dressed the bums and did all that medical skill can to relieve the little one’s sufferings, He pronounces the injuries very serious but considers it too soon to form an opinion as to the probability of her recovery. The bed where the child first threw herself was. scorched, and had it taken fire no doubt the house would have been bnrned and probably the sick child on the bed.