Miss
Maggie Brown, eldest daughter of Mr. F. A. Brown, Simcoe, was so
fearfully burned on Tuesday night of last week that death came to her
relief at eight o'clock the next morning.
It appears that
about 10 o'clock the young lady and her younger sister Julia had gone
upstairs to their room to retire for the night, as Maggie was attired
in her night dress.
She had put on a
pair of kid gloves and was cleaning them with gasoline from a bottle
which she had. She was rubbing the gloves in the act of spreading the
material to clean them when all at once the vapor from the gasoline
had taken fire from the coal oil lamp, and Maggie, in attempting to
extinguish it, must have got the gasoline over her night dress as she
was instantly in a blaze.
She ran down a
long flight of stairs, where her mother met her and threw around her a
rug which partially put out the flames.
Dr. Stanton was
soon in attendance and found her fearfully burned from her chest down
her body and extremities. He did all that could be done to alleviate
her sufferings. However, she complained of severe pains in the
stomach, indicating internal trouble, which usually results from such
cases. She was perfectly conscious to the last. The doctor remained
with her till four o'clock.
Mrs.
Brown's hands were very badly burned in her attempts to quench the
flames around her suffering daughter.
The
deceased young lady was a general favorite by reason of her amiable
and loveable disposition and her many intellectual endowments. Her
musical ability was of a very high order, and there is every reason to
believe she would have become eminent in that delightful art.
The
heart-broken parents and friends will have the deep sympathy of the
town in their sad and sorrowful bereasvement. The deceased had entered
her 17th year.
