Another Gasoline Accident

Another gasoline accident! This morning while Mrs. Esther A. Pike, who raanages what is known as Walker's boarding house at the corner of First st. and Miller ave., and her servant, Ella Grubbe, whose home is in the northern part of the state, were cieaning soime bed room furnituro wlth gasoline there was a sudden puff and Mrs. Pike's clothes took flrs. The causi of the blaze was probably that she stepped upon a parlor match which ignited the gases thrown out by the fluid. The girl immediately ran to her assistance and soon the room was on fire. A window which stands about six or seven teel f rom the ground was up nnd Miss Grubbe jumped out through this. Mrs. l'ike atarted to climb out In order to escape from the now burning building and Miss Grubbe helped her to the ground. Mrs. Pike's clothes were burning her and with some difBculty they were tom from her body. Physicians were summoned and every care was i givpn the unfortunate woman. In the meantime the flre department arrived at the scène and quiekly extinguished the flamee in the building. Miss Grubbe was the more fortúnate of the two women. Her hands were badly buraed, but otherwise she was uninjured. Mrs. Pike was terribly burned about the face, the arras and legs. Dr. Kapp thinks that, unless the reaction is too great, she will recover. It was a terrible accident, and ioliowing so close upon the Rose Sutter fatality makkes the impression on the minds of the people in regard to gas-oline all the more solemn.