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SE VERAL DISTRESSING A CCIDENTSFROM THE COMMON LUCIFER MA TCH.A very terrible accident occurred a week or two ago at Marseilles to a young bride only eighteen years of age. She had only been married in the morning, and in the evening, with the high spirits befitting the occasion, she was tripping about with new friends at their country house, when her foot came in contact with a common lucifer match. Soon her muslin dress was in flames, and the unfortunate young lady was so dreadfully burned that she afterwards died. Another^ melancholy occurrence took place at Aisne Asylum in ^France, by which six lives were sacrificed through using lucifer matches. A few months ago some little children stole a box of lucifer matches from a shepherd's hut, and amused themselves by setting fire to a stack of barley at the “ Sounds ” Farm, occupied by Mr. Philip Kent, of Chippenham, Newmarket. The buildings were quickly levelled to the ground, and 400 comb3 of corn and a great many valuable implements were destroyed.Again, the terrible effect produced by the poisonous nature of the compounds in the common lucifer match was exhibited in the case of two children of Mrs. Staller, Ely-place, Stepney, who died from the effects of phosphorus taken into the system. It appears that the children, who were six years and nine mouths old, got possession of some lucifer matches in the absence of their mother and sucked the phosphorus off the ends. On the return of the mother they were at once put under medical treatment, but as already mentioned without effect.Houses, warehouses, and buildings of all kinds are constantly being consumed by the negligent use of common matches, all of which might have been avoided by using Messrs. Bryant and May's “ Safety Matches,” which contain neither phosphorus nor sulphur, and ignite only on the prepared surface of the box, thus affording to life and property the most effectual protection from fire; at the same time they emit no unpleasant odour, and have no poisonous compounds
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London South Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Sep 17, 1864
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