{"id":813,"date":"2023-12-24T23:58:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T23:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=813"},"modified":"2023-12-24T23:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T23:58:56","slug":"fatal-explosion-of-an-oil-lamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Explosion of an Oil Lamp."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">Fatal Explosion of an Oil Lamp.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wdt-442-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-815\" src=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wdt-442-1-164x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wdt-442-1-164x300.jpg 164w, https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/wdt-442-1.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 28.\u2014A lamp exploded in the house of Mrs. Mary Flanagan, on Penn avenue last night, badly burning four persons, one of them fatally. Mrs. Flanagan had unscrewed the burner from the lamp without extinguishing the light and was filling it up with oil. The flame suddenly flashed up and the burning fluid was scattered over Mrs. Flanagan, her daughter Sadie, aged eight years, and an infant aged eighteen months. Hugh McGuire, a boarder in the house, succeeded in putting out the flames, his hands being terribly burned. The injuries by Mrs. Flanagan and the daughter are not serious. The babe will die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\"><em>Culled from the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair<br \/>\n1886 Morbid Scrapbook<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatal Explosion of an Oil Lamp. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 28.\u2014A lamp exploded in the house of Mrs. Mary Flanagan, on Penn avenue last night, badly burning four persons, one of them fatally. Mrs. Flanagan had unscrewed the burner from the lamp without extinguishing the light and was filling it up with oil. The flame suddenly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fatal Explosion of an Oil Lamp.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accidental","category-death","category-fire-scalding-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}