Terrible Death by Burning.
[PBB UNITBn.PBESS ASSOCIATION,'. _.., iD_CN*i)ijc, Tb":Day. The following are the particulars of the .casfti pt._i«a4h by burning in Bruce county..„.Ou Sunday William Hodgson.* q| Canada, was out looking 0 after *h__ 'shee^ a'hff While standing on,the,edge r qf a very steep hill, upon r which' was r *-<juafatity of tussock and long dry fern, he Ut his pipe, threw thb match, down, and, weut a few "feet higher tip the 1 bilH *rh«*_i on Rooking round he saw; that the. match had J ignrtyd J the;gr_ißtr. ; Being » nton advanced in years;~he could not climb the hill fast enough to escape the flames. He soon saw that there wai» onfylbho reloui-ce before him -tojh. idowji pnd ro^ ttyipughthe flauies,) which jplan he; imipediat^ adopted. BY 'the . time b> had' rolled ih rough the burning grn ss most of ".his fclotheii J were" burned bff his J bat3c. u nis beard singed dose to the flesh, and he was terribly burned all j over the body. He lingered in anJuhcorisciousLstate uuti pext morning, when he expired.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 60, 30 October 1884, Page 2
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177Terrible Death by Burning. Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 60, 30 October 1884, Page 2
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