Emmadine Campbell |
| Posted 2025-10-03 by Jo Brown |
| Little Baby Girl Is Burned to Death Emmadine, the eight-months-old baby girl of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Campbell of Artesia died at 7:00 o'clock last night at Miss Main's Sanitarium as the result of frightful burns which practically covered the little ones body. According to information received here Mrs. Campbell, who had been ironing clothes with a gasoline iron, left a pitcher containing gasoline on the floor before leaving for town yesterday afternoon. After the mother left the house the baby crawled over and got the pitcher and spilled the gasoline over its clothing. Her older sister Leva, aged 11 years, noticing the wet condition of the baby's clothing, took her over near the stove, and the gasoline fumes ignited, engulfing the baby's body in flames. Leva succeeded in putting out the flames, but not before all the clothing had been burned from the little body which had almost been incinerated, and she herself was terribly burned on both arms up to the elbows. Leva picked up the baby and ran to Arthur Woolsey's home nearby and Mr. and Mrs. Woolsey brought both children here to Dr. Warner's office in their auto. Dr. Warner, assisted by Stan Crandall, dressed the burns on the baby's body and also the burns on the older girls arms and both children were taken to Miss Main's Sanitarium. There was absolutely no chance to save the baby it was so badly burned and death came to its relief about 7:00 o'clock last night. Dan Campbell owns a small ranch in Artesia and the mother helps by doing laundry work. They are poor people and in need of some help in this time of bereavement. Any assistance financially that the kind people here wish to give them can be left at The Palms or Crandall's Pharmacy. Graham Guardian January 17, 1919 |
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