CRESTLINE, O., Feb. 9.
Last evening about 6 o’clock, as Mrs. Graham, wife of engineer of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago R. R., was filling a coal oil lamp; the oil caught fire, communicating to Mrs. Graham’s clothes and burning her and two of her children to death. Mrs. Graham’s mother, an old lady, was also burned; also another child of Mrs. Graham’s but it is thought they will recover.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1
Last evening about 6 o’clock, as Mrs. Graham, wife of engineer of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago R. R., was filling a coal oil lamp; the oil caught fire, communicating to Mrs. Graham’s clothes and burning her and two of her children to death. Mrs. Graham’s mother, an old lady, was also burned; also another child of Mrs. Graham’s but it is thought they will recover.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1
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