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The Pentwater News
August 1, 1873


              FATAL KEROSENE ACCIDENT
              
              On last Thursday evening JULIA RODDY, a girl of fourteen
            and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN RODDY, of Pentwater,
            was carrying a lighted lamp in one hand and a dish of pre-
            serves in the other, when she stumbled and the lamp fell
            from her hand to the floor, breaking in the fall. The oil
            instantly ignited and in her endeavors to put out the flames,
            her own clothing caught fire. Her screams brought her mother
            to her assistance, who endeavored to smother her flaming 
            clothing by wrapping her in a blanket, but all to no avail.
            Every vestige of her garments was burned off, and notwith-
            standing the constent exertions of the attending physicians
            and her friends, she expired at about 4 o'clock Friday morn-
            ing, having suffered unutterable agony. JULIA was a girl of
            prepossessing appearance, and beloved by all who knew her.
            Her parents have the sympathy of the whole community in
            their sad bereavement.
            

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