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        FATALLY BURNED
   When Coaloil Can Exploded
      While Making a Fire.

   A ten-year-old son of Mrs. and Mrs.
Charles Wise, who live on the Yeagle
farm near Bakertown, was fatally
burned about 6:30 Monday evening
and died a few hours later at Memo-
rial hospital where he was taken by 
Dr. E. W. Baker.  The mother also
had her arms severly burned when
she caught the child and rushed out
of doors, and a baby sister was
slightly burned on the chin.
   The accident happened when
"Junior," as the little fellow was
called, poured coaloil from a can
onto a fire which he had just lighted
in the cookstove.  The flames fol-
lowed into the can, which exploded
and threw the burning fluid all
over the child and set fire to the
house.  More than 50 per cent, of
the lad's body was burned to a crisp.
   Mr. Wise was at home at the time
and succeeded in putting out the fire,
so that the house was not much
damaged, which was most fortunate,
as a strong gale was blowing at the
time.
   The Wise family has lived on the
place for the past year, coming here
from Bellevue.  Mrs. Wise was
formerly Miss Jones of Colby.
   Undertaker F. E. Harris & Son of
Bellevue took the body to their
mortuary Tuesday morning to pre-
pare it for burial.  The funeral will
be held at the residence this after-
noon, at 2 o'clock, with burial at
York Free Chapel.
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