Kansas City,
Missouri Fire
February 11, 1904
PERISHED IN A BURNING STORE
THE DEADLY GASOLINE STOVE SCORES AGAIN
Occupants Leap From Windows as Building Burns
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 11. -
Miss Jessie Averill,
aged 20, a clerk in a millinery store, was
burned to death, and four others were injured,
one perhaps fatally, in a fire today that
destroyed a three story apartment house at
Fifteenth and Harrison streets. There were
several narrow escapes and several persons
jumped from second and third story windows.
The injured were
Miss Ida Parish, badly burned and
injured internally, perhaps fatally.
Miss Lena Snelling,
face and hands burned serious.
Miss Margaret Shaw,
face and head burned, serious.
Miss Minnie Taylor,
head and hands badly burned, arm
broken.
The fire was started by the explosion of a
gasoline stove in Miss
Averill's room.
She was burned to a crisp and her body fell out
of a window through which she apparently tried
to escape.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 11 Feb 1904
Transcribed by
Sandi
Carter. Thanks, Sandi!
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