| Frances Leffler |
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Girl at Hartford City Was Burned to Death Over at Hartford City queer things have happen (sic), but the latest is the worst that has yet been reported. The story of the happening is given in the following special from that town Friday evening. "One of the most distressing accidents that has ever occurred in this county took place yesterday morning at 2 o'clock. Miss Frances Leffler, the sixteen-year-old daughter of George Leffler, a farmer living in Washington Township, was cremated before the eyes of her lover. Charles Baiter accompanid her to a revival meeting, and both returned to her home tired, cold and sleepy. They sat down before the open stove, and both fell asleep. Bainter, as well as the rest of the occupants of the house, was shortly awakened by screams, just in time to see the young lady dashing out of the door into the open air, her clothing being a mass of flames. The wind added strength to the blaze, and the girl ran until she sank from exhaustion. Her clothes were burned from her body. She was taken to the house where, after several hours of untold suffering, she died. Before she died she told the attending physician that the wind had blown down the chimney with such force as to send the gas blaze out from the front of the stove against her dress and ignited it, She was enveloped in flames before she was thoroughly awakened. /center> |