FILLING A LIGHTED LAMP
AND THE CONSEQUENCES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Taihape. Wednesday. While attempting to refill a lighted brazing lamp with methylated spirits yesterday evening Albert Harvey, aged 18, a cycle repairer, got frightfully burnt. The spirit cauaht fire, the flames ascending to the roof. Harvey, a mass of flames, rushed from the shop screaming, and crossed the road, entering a store, where he was seized by E. Ingram, telegraph linesman, who promptly ripped his clothes off and laid the sufferer in the water-table, thus saving the man's life. The victim was taken to a pharmacy, and medical aid summoned. It was found that all the lower part of his body from his hips was more or less burnt, also the arms and hair singed. Leslie Mahoney, a bootmaker in the same premises, was also burnt on the arms and face, and it was feared he would lose his sight, but the latest reports are that both sufferers are doing as well as can be expected. The fire in the building was extinguished by a neighbor, McCormick, with a chemical apparatus.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 175, 3 November 1910, Page 5
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181FILLING A LIGHTED LAMP Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 175, 3 November 1910, Page 5
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