previous next

Distressing Accident.

--Julia Spicer, a little girl about fifteen years of age daughter of Martin Spicer, living near the Second Market, was burnt in a severe manner on Thursday night. She was sitting by the bed sewing, when the candle tilted over, and before she could prevent it set fire to her own clothes and the bed on which the candle had been placed. Her father and mother, who were in the next room, hearing her screams, ran in to her assistance and by throwing around her a blanket succeeded in extinguishing the flames before her clothes were entirely burnt off. --They were also very badly burnt about the hands. The little girl was severely burnt about her body and hands, but her injuries it is not believed will prove fatal. By the timely assistance of some of the neighbors, the dead was thrown from the window into the street before the flames from it set fire to anything else in the room.

The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 19, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Martin Spicer (1)
Julia Spicer (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: