DEATH FROM BURNS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9393, 13 March 1909, Page 4

DEATH FROM BURNS.

Per Press Association. Gisborne.’.March 13.

Yesterday afternoon Mrs Holloway received terrible burns about her body. She was melting beeswax on a stove when the wax boiled over and shot into flames.. She rushed to the stove and caught )che dish in her apron, and In endeavouring to take it.out the burning wax sec her dress alight and she rushed out screaming for assistance. Several neighbours were soon on the scene and succeeded in extinguishing the flames after the poor woman’s dress had been almost completely burnt off. Although suffering intensely she had the presence of mind to tell the helpers that the house was on fire, and two gentlemen, who had arrived by this time, immediately went in and succeeded in putting out the flames before any serious damage was done. * Mrs Holloway was carried into her room where the doctors, who had been sent for, bathed wounds in oil and lime water and wrapped them in lint. She succumbed to her injuries at 6 o’clock this morning. Deceased was a young woman, and leaves one child.