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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], The enemy on the Peninsula. (search)
Burnt to death. --On Friday last John Craddock, a little boy not quite four years old, son of Mr. Robert Craddock, Confederate States detective, was burnt to death at the premises of Mr. Samuel Curry, of Union Hill. The little fellow was at play in Mr. Curry's kitchen, adjoining his father's residence, with some other children, when his clothes took fire, and being of a very inflammable nature, soon enveloped his whole person in a light blaze. The cries of the children alarmed Mr. C.'s they arrived at the scene of the accident it was too late to render much assistance, as his clothes had burnt entirely off. He was immediately taken home, where medical and other attendance was promptly rendered; but nothing could save his life, and he died in a few hours after the accident, suffering the most excruciating agony. The circumstance is rendered more distressing on account of the absence from the city of the father of this little boy and the illness of Mrs. Craddock, its mother.