WOOLRIDGE, J. Mrs. died 1895

WOOLRIDGE

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Date: 10/22/2015 at 10:50:24

Iowa Plain Dealer April 26, 1895, FP C4

Mrs. J. Woolridge was accidently burned to death at Nashua last week. She was ill in the night and getting up for some medicine lit a lamp. She then fainted into unconsciousness and when she became conscious again found herself enveloped in flames, having overturned the lamp as she fell.--Decorah Journal.

Burned to Death.
Nashua, April 17.—A deplorable accident occurred in this city about two o’clock this morning. Mrs. Woolridge, wife of the proprietor of the hotel, who has been ailing for some little time, arose from her bed to light a lamp. She struck a match, which is as far as she now remembers, and at once fainted and fell to the floor. Whether she lit the lamp or not she does not know. Anyway the lamp fell to the floor and broke, scattering the oil over herself and the floor. Before she recovered sufficiently to realize her peril she was very badly burned. She rushed out of the room and down the hall where her cries for help brought assistance and the fire about her person and in the room was distinguished. Two physicians were at ones{sic} summoned and they found that condition was most serious. The entire body with the exception of the front of one limb below the knee, is so fearfully burned that it is not thought possible that she can survive many days. Mr. Woolridge is out of the city or this sad affliction which has come to his home would doubtless have been averted.—[Mrs. Woolridge died just sixteen hours after the accident.—EDS. REP.]

Source: Decorah Republican Apr. 25, 1895 P 9 C 3