She is the daughter of Dr. William Orlando and Mary Anna Bentley Griggs.
She died in a horrible explosion and house fire as a result of using benzine as a moth preventative. Here is the front page headlined obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer for May 19, 1896. The badly-written article refers to her as a niece, in actuality she was the granddaughter.
THE BENZINE BLEW UP
Used as a Moth Preventative, It Set Fire to a Residence.
MISS GRIGGS WILL DIE.
Another Young Woman Badly Burned and Two Narrowly Escape.
A QUICK FLASH OF FIRE
An Explosion in a House Which Was to Have Been Closed To-day for the Summer - A Lesson to Housewives.
AN EXPLOSION RESULTED FROM THE use of benzine in the house of Mrs. S.R. Bentley last evening. Her niece [sic], Miss Rosie Griggs, was fatally injured and Miss Sallie Bentley was seriously burned. The house was gutted by the fire.
An explosion of benzine, which was being used to prevent moths from eating carpets, resulted last evening in fatal injuries to one woman and the serious burnning of another, while two more made a narrow escape. The explosion occured at the residence of Mrs. S.R. Bentley, 2013 North Twelfth Street, and caused a fire which nearly destroyed the house.
Shortly after 6 o'clock the neighborhood was startled by a loud noise like the report of a pistol. Mrs. Bentley, with her daughters, Sallie and Kate Bentley, and her niece [sic], Miss Rosie Griggs, had been dropping benzine around the edges of the carpets as a safeguard against moths, they having planned to go out of town today. Miss Griggs was on the second floor and the others were downstairs when the explosion took place. There was no fire in the room and the explosion was evidently caused by spontaneous combustion.
A MASS OF FLAMES
Mrs. Bentley discovered the flames in the parlor and at once called upstairs to her niece [sic], warning her of their danger. A moment later, the house was one mass of flames, the fire following the track of the benzine upstairs. Miss Kate Bentley rushed to the door and escaped uninjured. Her mother, following, inhaled smoke and was taken ill, but soon recovered. The other daughter, however, was not so fortunate and was badly burned about the face and arms before she could reach the yard.
In the meantime, Miss Griggs had endeavored to get out of the house, and reached the sitting room on the first floor when she was overcome by the flames. As she fell Officers Logan and Condon, of the twenty-eighth district, together with William and Frederick Eddy, of 2011 Carmac Street, rushed in and throwing a carpet around her carried her out quickly into the air.
She was terribly burned and but a fragment of clothing remained on her body. A physician was summoned and she was removed in the patrol to the Woman's Hospital, where she was not expected to live throughout the night. Miss Sallie Bentley and her mother were attended by Dr. C. M. Christine, and both will recover from the effects of their injuries.
The fire lasted but a very few minutes, burning very rapidly. The loss was estimated at $2500 and is covered by insurance.
She died in a horrible explosion and house fire as a result of using benzine as a moth preventative. Here is the front page headlined obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer for May 19, 1896. The badly-written article refers to her as a niece, in actuality she was the granddaughter.
THE BENZINE BLEW UP
Used as a Moth Preventative, It Set Fire to a Residence.
MISS GRIGGS WILL DIE.
Another Young Woman Badly Burned and Two Narrowly Escape.
A QUICK FLASH OF FIRE
An Explosion in a House Which Was to Have Been Closed To-day for the Summer - A Lesson to Housewives.
AN EXPLOSION RESULTED FROM THE use of benzine in the house of Mrs. S.R. Bentley last evening. Her niece [sic], Miss Rosie Griggs, was fatally injured and Miss Sallie Bentley was seriously burned. The house was gutted by the fire.
An explosion of benzine, which was being used to prevent moths from eating carpets, resulted last evening in fatal injuries to one woman and the serious burnning of another, while two more made a narrow escape. The explosion occured at the residence of Mrs. S.R. Bentley, 2013 North Twelfth Street, and caused a fire which nearly destroyed the house.
Shortly after 6 o'clock the neighborhood was startled by a loud noise like the report of a pistol. Mrs. Bentley, with her daughters, Sallie and Kate Bentley, and her niece [sic], Miss Rosie Griggs, had been dropping benzine around the edges of the carpets as a safeguard against moths, they having planned to go out of town today. Miss Griggs was on the second floor and the others were downstairs when the explosion took place. There was no fire in the room and the explosion was evidently caused by spontaneous combustion.
A MASS OF FLAMES
Mrs. Bentley discovered the flames in the parlor and at once called upstairs to her niece [sic], warning her of their danger. A moment later, the house was one mass of flames, the fire following the track of the benzine upstairs. Miss Kate Bentley rushed to the door and escaped uninjured. Her mother, following, inhaled smoke and was taken ill, but soon recovered. The other daughter, however, was not so fortunate and was badly burned about the face and arms before she could reach the yard.
In the meantime, Miss Griggs had endeavored to get out of the house, and reached the sitting room on the first floor when she was overcome by the flames. As she fell Officers Logan and Condon, of the twenty-eighth district, together with William and Frederick Eddy, of 2011 Carmac Street, rushed in and throwing a carpet around her carried her out quickly into the air.
She was terribly burned and but a fragment of clothing remained on her body. A physician was summoned and she was removed in the patrol to the Woman's Hospital, where she was not expected to live throughout the night. Miss Sallie Bentley and her mother were attended by Dr. C. M. Christine, and both will recover from the effects of their injuries.
The fire lasted but a very few minutes, burning very rapidly. The loss was estimated at $2500 and is covered by insurance.
She is the daughter of Dr. William Orlando and Mary Anna Bentley Griggs.
She died in a horrible explosion and house fire as a result of using benzine as a moth preventative. Here is the front page headlined obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer for May 19, 1896. The badly-written article refers to her as a niece, in actuality she was the granddaughter.
THE BENZINE BLEW UP
Used as a Moth Preventative, It Set Fire to a Residence.
MISS GRIGGS WILL DIE.
Another Young Woman Badly Burned and Two Narrowly Escape.
A QUICK FLASH OF FIRE
An Explosion in a House Which Was to Have Been Closed To-day for the Summer - A Lesson to Housewives.
AN EXPLOSION RESULTED FROM THE use of benzine in the house of Mrs. S.R. Bentley last evening. Her niece [sic], Miss Rosie Griggs, was fatally injured and Miss Sallie Bentley was seriously burned. The house was gutted by the fire.
An explosion of benzine, which was being used to prevent moths from eating carpets, resulted last evening in fatal injuries to one woman and the serious burnning of another, while two more made a narrow escape. The explosion occured at the residence of Mrs. S.R. Bentley, 2013 North Twelfth Street, and caused a fire which nearly destroyed the house.
Shortly after 6 o'clock the neighborhood was startled by a loud noise like the report of a pistol. Mrs. Bentley, with her daughters, Sallie and Kate Bentley, and her niece [sic], Miss Rosie Griggs, had been dropping benzine around the edges of the carpets as a safeguard against moths, they having planned to go out of town today. Miss Griggs was on the second floor and the others were downstairs when the explosion took place. There was no fire in the room and the explosion was evidently caused by spontaneous combustion.
A MASS OF FLAMES
Mrs. Bentley discovered the flames in the parlor and at once called upstairs to her niece [sic], warning her of their danger. A moment later, the house was one mass of flames, the fire following the track of the benzine upstairs. Miss Kate Bentley rushed to the door and escaped uninjured. Her mother, following, inhaled smoke and was taken ill, but soon recovered. The other daughter, however, was not so fortunate and was badly burned about the face and arms before she could reach the yard.
In the meantime, Miss Griggs had endeavored to get out of the house, and reached the sitting room on the first floor when she was overcome by the flames. As she fell Officers Logan and Condon, of the twenty-eighth district, together with William and Frederick Eddy, of 2011 Carmac Street, rushed in and throwing a carpet around her carried her out quickly into the air.
She was terribly burned and but a fragment of clothing remained on her body. A physician was summoned and she was removed in the patrol to the Woman's Hospital, where she was not expected to live throughout the night. Miss Sallie Bentley and her mother were attended by Dr. C. M. Christine, and both will recover from the effects of their injuries.
The fire lasted but a very few minutes, burning very rapidly. The loss was estimated at $2500 and is covered by insurance.
She died in a horrible explosion and house fire as a result of using benzine as a moth preventative. Here is the front page headlined obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer for May 19, 1896. The badly-written article refers to her as a niece, in actuality she was the granddaughter.
THE BENZINE BLEW UP
Used as a Moth Preventative, It Set Fire to a Residence.
MISS GRIGGS WILL DIE.
Another Young Woman Badly Burned and Two Narrowly Escape.
A QUICK FLASH OF FIRE
An Explosion in a House Which Was to Have Been Closed To-day for the Summer - A Lesson to Housewives.
AN EXPLOSION RESULTED FROM THE use of benzine in the house of Mrs. S.R. Bentley last evening. Her niece [sic], Miss Rosie Griggs, was fatally injured and Miss Sallie Bentley was seriously burned. The house was gutted by the fire.
An explosion of benzine, which was being used to prevent moths from eating carpets, resulted last evening in fatal injuries to one woman and the serious burnning of another, while two more made a narrow escape. The explosion occured at the residence of Mrs. S.R. Bentley, 2013 North Twelfth Street, and caused a fire which nearly destroyed the house.
Shortly after 6 o'clock the neighborhood was startled by a loud noise like the report of a pistol. Mrs. Bentley, with her daughters, Sallie and Kate Bentley, and her niece [sic], Miss Rosie Griggs, had been dropping benzine around the edges of the carpets as a safeguard against moths, they having planned to go out of town today. Miss Griggs was on the second floor and the others were downstairs when the explosion took place. There was no fire in the room and the explosion was evidently caused by spontaneous combustion.
A MASS OF FLAMES
Mrs. Bentley discovered the flames in the parlor and at once called upstairs to her niece [sic], warning her of their danger. A moment later, the house was one mass of flames, the fire following the track of the benzine upstairs. Miss Kate Bentley rushed to the door and escaped uninjured. Her mother, following, inhaled smoke and was taken ill, but soon recovered. The other daughter, however, was not so fortunate and was badly burned about the face and arms before she could reach the yard.
In the meantime, Miss Griggs had endeavored to get out of the house, and reached the sitting room on the first floor when she was overcome by the flames. As she fell Officers Logan and Condon, of the twenty-eighth district, together with William and Frederick Eddy, of 2011 Carmac Street, rushed in and throwing a carpet around her carried her out quickly into the air.
She was terribly burned and but a fragment of clothing remained on her body. A physician was summoned and she was removed in the patrol to the Woman's Hospital, where she was not expected to live throughout the night. Miss Sallie Bentley and her mother were attended by Dr. C. M. Christine, and both will recover from the effects of their injuries.
The fire lasted but a very few minutes, burning very rapidly. The loss was estimated at $2500 and is covered by insurance.
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