Kansas City, Missouri
Gas
Stove 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
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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