Fatal Kerosene Explosion

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 28, 21 January 1875, Page 3

Fatal Kerosene Explosion

♦ ; A shocking affair Happened 1 atSandbridge on lately in tlie ' explosion of a kerosene lamp, * whic'K' resulted in "tli'o" death of mother and child. ' It appears that Mrs Kate Morgan, wife of Mr R. R. Morgan, residing' at Spring^steet r Snndridge, retired Tto bed! with her youngest son, Frank.. Ed ward v a child" ~ 15 monthsold, and about half-past 11 o'clock she 'was alarmed .b^ ths;,§ud"dtfn, explosion pf a kerosene lamp, which had been left burning bn : a table in the bed- j iroom. • Finding herself t»nd the child surroiindfld by flames, which bad ignited ihe .bedclothesj-M-rs- -Morgan screamed for aid. '-- M^r Morgan, Whotlwas slee'piri^ ijn an adjacentbedropm with some othet 1 ' of his chidrenV li^it(g;.,.arou.Sed'by the Icreams, hastened toi9M<lf tain the cause. tJpon reachingthe 'd^.Qcrqf itjh^raom in jdiich his wife andjhildhart been sleepprocured a^bucket;«f w.atttifa.sy&ti<mt th« ?^ta^S; ; %utfead : to-take^he'3vrotimeß'f t4 ( :ffi£^f|tafc% ?^,Mgkylf^T.&e^i^' be coiiJld succeed *Jk&?l^&§^<£^£^§st p^Mre Moi^h atiracied -^« VyenUpj^., | .I'&Voci nhi£z-&_--tii r J.s.z£>j scditsro

also of a lady residing neit door, who :*pee^^efcted:!Bnzento hous6 by jumpiftgDjtbi^Sgbv'SHß <$*fee wihdows^~-^he :^s3isted,,Mr,JVtojga]Q i ia, >6fi ; the' er'plosipn It • was' 1 sriotr : asceir-^ "Cfllnejrf fthat the .child, had .Ueen most I sey^rjely burned, and that Mrs Morgan's ! i^juijies weWafso of a dangeronsi .Vatuj-e. Medical aid was procured with 1 all -pijssible despatch. Mr M alcolm^on; whojattended the at once-iex-pressed his opinion that thefe was no [Jiopej of the childs recovery, aud that Mrs jMorgan's injurifts were of so serious a character as to render her chance of recovery very slight. After lingering until half-past 4 o'clock: on Tuesday morning, the unfortunate, child, succumbed to the injuries it had received, and Mrs Morgan only survived her infant, some 12 hour?, having expired on Tuesday evening at about 5 O'clock. The sad occurrance has spread a gloom over the neighbourhood, while the husband, children, and numerous relatives of Mrs Morgan are inconsolable at the loss they have sustained. 'Mrs Morgan was age,d.3s -years. At the inquest held on Wednesday on the bodiesi of the unfortunate victims, verdicts of accidental death were found.