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MINNESOTA STATE NEWSTRJED TO BOIL KEROSENE.A Dreadful Accident C*u*ed by * Mina* ■ota Woman's Mistake.A terrible accident occurred at the home of John Baumchen in Rush City, whose wife had just died. The body had been.prepared for burial and placed in the parlor. Mrs. Potter, sister of Mrs. Baumchen, put a boiler on the stove containing1 what she supposed to be water, but which proved to be ten gallons of kerosene which had been emptied'into the boiler from a leaking can. The oil soon began to boil and in ten minutes exploded, setting the bouse on fire in a dozen places. The flames soon enveloped the parlor and set on fire the corpse and the cofiln, the lid of which had not been fastened. Frank and Philip Baumchen, sons of the dead woman, rushed through the flames and tried to secure the body but were driven back. John Baumchen, another son, rushed in, and grasping the remains ran through a sheet of fire, his clothes being burned from his ■ body and his. hands and face burned to a blister. He would die. Mr. Baumchen, Sr., and Miss Lizzie Stenger jumped from a Becoud-story window, the latter being rendered unconscious by her bruises. The house was burned to the ground in twenty minutes.
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Warren Sheaf
Warren, Minnesota, US
Thu, Sep 24, 1891
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