From the Plattsburgh Republican Newspaper Dec. 1859
"FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident, fatal in its
consequences, as so terrible as to have aroused the sympathy and sorrow of the entire community, occurred at the residence of Mr. John Milholland, a respectable citizen Of the town
of Lewis, on Sunday evening last, the 13th
instant. We are informed that Mrs. Milholland attempted to fill a lighted lamp with kerosene oil; when an explosion ensued, scattering the burning oil in all directions and setting on fire the clothes of the unfortunate woman and of her daughter, who was standing near, &
also setting fire to the house. The two ladies were so fearfully burned that they survived but a few hours. The house and all it contained were destroyed.
The many virtues of both of the deceased
add to the sorrow which is everywhere expressed; but we can only regard with awe this strange and sad catastrophy, and feel how weak is human sympathy, however free
and heartfelt, to alleviate the anguish of him
whose desolated heart bleeds for the loved and
lost.—Elizabethtown Post."
"FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident, fatal in its
consequences, as so terrible as to have aroused the sympathy and sorrow of the entire community, occurred at the residence of Mr. John Milholland, a respectable citizen Of the town
of Lewis, on Sunday evening last, the 13th
instant. We are informed that Mrs. Milholland attempted to fill a lighted lamp with kerosene oil; when an explosion ensued, scattering the burning oil in all directions and setting on fire the clothes of the unfortunate woman and of her daughter, who was standing near, &
also setting fire to the house. The two ladies were so fearfully burned that they survived but a few hours. The house and all it contained were destroyed.
The many virtues of both of the deceased
add to the sorrow which is everywhere expressed; but we can only regard with awe this strange and sad catastrophy, and feel how weak is human sympathy, however free
and heartfelt, to alleviate the anguish of him
whose desolated heart bleeds for the loved and
lost.—Elizabethtown Post."
From the Plattsburgh Republican Newspaper Dec. 1859
"FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident, fatal in its
consequences, as so terrible as to have aroused the sympathy and sorrow of the entire community, occurred at the residence of Mr. John Milholland, a respectable citizen Of the town
of Lewis, on Sunday evening last, the 13th
instant. We are informed that Mrs. Milholland attempted to fill a lighted lamp with kerosene oil; when an explosion ensued, scattering the burning oil in all directions and setting on fire the clothes of the unfortunate woman and of her daughter, who was standing near, &
also setting fire to the house. The two ladies were so fearfully burned that they survived but a few hours. The house and all it contained were destroyed.
The many virtues of both of the deceased
add to the sorrow which is everywhere expressed; but we can only regard with awe this strange and sad catastrophy, and feel how weak is human sympathy, however free
and heartfelt, to alleviate the anguish of him
whose desolated heart bleeds for the loved and
lost.—Elizabethtown Post."
"FATAL ACCIDENT.—An accident, fatal in its
consequences, as so terrible as to have aroused the sympathy and sorrow of the entire community, occurred at the residence of Mr. John Milholland, a respectable citizen Of the town
of Lewis, on Sunday evening last, the 13th
instant. We are informed that Mrs. Milholland attempted to fill a lighted lamp with kerosene oil; when an explosion ensued, scattering the burning oil in all directions and setting on fire the clothes of the unfortunate woman and of her daughter, who was standing near, &
also setting fire to the house. The two ladies were so fearfully burned that they survived but a few hours. The house and all it contained were destroyed.
The many virtues of both of the deceased
add to the sorrow which is everywhere expressed; but we can only regard with awe this strange and sad catastrophy, and feel how weak is human sympathy, however free
and heartfelt, to alleviate the anguish of him
whose desolated heart bleeds for the loved and
lost.—Elizabethtown Post."
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