Roulette, Pennsylvania
Ostrander Home Gas Explosion
May
20, 1902
Mrs. W. A Ostrander,
and elderly resident of Roulette, Potter county,
was burned so badly in an explosion of natural
gas at her home late last Tuesday night that she
died on the following day. The house and its
contents and the adjacent barn were all burned.
After the explosion
Mrs. Ostrander managed to get out of
the house in the rear and reach a neighbor’s.
Bits of flesh from her hands and body strewed
her way to the neighbor’s house. She was able to
tell the story before she became unconscious
from anesthetics, administered to relieve her
awful sufferings. She had been awakened by a
strong odor of gas. Arising and going to another
room she struck a match and the terrible
explosion followed which burst open the house
and set to the building. She rushed out of the
house enveloped in flames from her night clothes
which were consumed before she reached her
refuge. She was horrible burned about the body
and her hands were simply incinerated.
The Wellsboro Agitator, Wellsboro, Pa 21
May 1902
Transcribed by Audrey. Thank you,
Audrey!
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