WOMAN FATALLY BURNED.
By Telegraph—Press Association. GiSBORNE, March 18. 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 the flames. She rushed to the stove and caught the dish in her apron, and while endeavouring; to take it out the burning wax set 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 burned off.- Although suffering intensely, she had the presence of mind to tell her helpers that the house was on fire, and two men 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 doctors, who had been sent for, bathed the wounds in oil and hmewater, and wrapped then:, in lint. She, however, succumbed to her injuries at 6 o'clock this morning. The deceased, who was a young woman, leaves one child.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3138, 15 March 1909, Page 5
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184WOMAN FATALLY BURNED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3138, 15 March 1909, Page 5
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