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LAMP SETS FIRE TO A FLAT.A lamp exploited last night In a flat on the second floor of the three-story frame building at 3.0S.‘I Third Avenue, and before the trouble thus started was curbed there .was all manner of excitement.Mrs. Lena Weishurt. who held the lampthat exploded, was probably fatally burned. Several Inmates of the house were rescued with great difficulty, and there were a number of slight Injuries. Mrs. Welshart’s husband. Charles Weishart. keeps the saloon on the ground floor of the building.Mrs Weishart was about to retire, and had placed the lamp on the table when it exploded. The burning oil saturated her clothing, and enveloped in /lames she ran screaming down stairs to the saloon, ivhero her husband and two friends were playing cards.The three men rolled the woman over and over on the floor, but did not extinguish the flames until her clothing was burned and «ho was terribly Injured. Alarms were sent to the Morris tin I a Police Station aiul for the firemen.Selective Foster aroused a boarder named Adolph Wolf, anil had to earty himdown stairs, as he was partly overcome by smoke. John Weiss and his wife, on the top floor, had been aroused by Mrs. Welsh-art's cries, and the mother ran with her baby to a front window. Their Hat wasAiling with smoke. She would have thrown lhe habv Into the street but for the crowd, which reassured her.In the excitement two boarders. Appel and Stable, were forgotten. They slept too soundly and knew nothing of their danger. The men were carried out by firemen and revived quickly when in I he open air. Mrs. Weishart was taken to the Fordham Hospital. It is thought she cannot live.
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Tue, Nov 28, 1899
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