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OIL CAN EXPLODEDLife of Indiana Woman Snoffed Ont byBorns; Daughter and Two Sonsin Critical Conditions.FOUR WERE FOUND IN YARDTHE DEADMrs. Mary Case, 44, wife of Edward Case, residing in Grant Line road, near New Albany.THE INJUREDRaymond Case, 10, son of Eld ward Case; burned about face and hands and inhaled flames. Probably will die.John Case, 17, son of Edward Case, burned about the hands and face. Condition critical.rs. Nora Lynch, daughter of Edward Case and wife of Leland Lynch; burned about hands, face and arms. Condition critical and eyesignt threat-ened.New Albany, Ind., Dec. 4.—Burnsreceived while attempting to start a fire with coal oil at her home in the Grant Line road, four miles from New Albany, near midnight Saturday, caused the death of Mrs. Edward Case at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. A daughter Mrs. Nora Lynch, 18, and twosons, Raymond Case, 10, and John Case, 17, are in a critical condition at St. Edward’s hospital, New Albany, where they were removed from their country residence after their mother’s death. They were burned while trying to save Mrs. Case from the flames in which she was wrapped after an oil can exploded in her hand.The husband, son-in-law, Leland Lynch, and another daughter, Miss Bertha Case, were not at home at the time of the accident, the men having gone to New Albany on business, whilefha »trl sant to a friend’s house toon her clothing, and in an instant she was a mass of flames.Her children attempted to rescue her frm her plight. Surrounding her, they beat the flames with their hands in an effort to put them out, but in stead of extinguishing the blaze, they themselves sustained burns which threat en to snuff out their lives.Apparently realizing how futile their efforts were, they started out of the house, crying for help. One of the sons, the first to run from the room, let the door slam behind him; a spring lock caught and for a moment the other three were held prisoners in the rcnm filled with smoke and the fumes of ga3 oline. They managed to fores thelock, however, and fled into the open.Attracted by the cries of members of the family, William Tracy, a night watchman for a construction company doing work in the neighborhood, ran to the Case home to find the four rolling on the ground in agony, their clothing still burning. At the risk of being burnt himself Tracy took off his coat and with it smothered the flames, then extinguished the blaze in the house with water fetched from a nearby well. Neighbors, aroused from their sleep by the commotion at the Case home, came to the assistance of the injured and carried them into the house.Dr. J. W. Baxter, of New Albany, was summoned and, accompanied byMrs. Baxter, went in an automobile to the scene of the accident. First be applied lotions then put the victims of the accident uader the influence of anesthetics in order to alleviate their suffering. Mrs. Case lingered for eleven hours. At no time was there any hope entertained for her recovery, as her body was charred and burned so that the flesh fell from the bones in many places. Immediately after her death the three children were taken to the hospital in New Albany.Raymond, the younger son, was burned about the hands and face and,it is belt jved. inhaled some of tbe
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Jeffersonville Daily Reflector
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Tue, Dec 05, 1911
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