DANGER OF THROWING MATCHES
WAX VESTA COSTS A GLRL HER LIFE. Elsie Wright, a child of 14, was wheeling a mail cart, in which an infant was seated, along the High-street at Gillingham, when a wax match flung from the top of a tramcar set her light summer dress on fire. She was enveloped in flames in a moment, and her shrieks brought people rushing to her aid. A window blind was torn down from a. shop, the girl was enveloped in it. and the flames were extinguished. Her head, face, and shoulders were terribly burned, but in spite of her agony she exclaimed, "Look after baby." She was taken to the hospital, but died soon after her arrival..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13325, 3 November 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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119DANGER OF THROWING MATCHES New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13325, 3 November 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
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