The Bemidji Daily Pioneer

Clothes Caught Fire from Kitchen Stove

-Alone Four Hours After the Accident.

Mrs. I. M. Foster, who lives about a mile south of the city, was so badly burned Saturday afternoon that she is confined to St. Anthony's hospital, and only the prompt services of a physician saved her life.

Mrs. Foster was alone at her home, and was working around the cook stove. She was putting some wood in the stove to replenish the fire, when in some manner the gingham apron which she wore caught fire and all her clothes became ignited, enveloping her entire person in flames. Mrs. Foster snatched a blanket from a bed and wrapped herself in it, but the blanket also caught fire, and the frightened woman rushed to a barrel of water which stood in the room and threw the water on her clothing until the flames were extinguished.

Mrs. Foster was badly burned from the waist line to the top of her head, and was in terrible pain and entirely exhausted by her experience.

Mr. Foster was away in the woods at the time of the accident (2 o'clock in the afternoon) and she was prostrated in her bed until 6 in the evening before her husband returned home and found her. Mr. Foster hurried to this city and secured a physician, who went to the Foster home and found that she had been badly burned, her body, from the waist to the top of her head, being scorched until the flesh was raw. Remedies were applied for the temporary relief from the burns and Mrs. Foster was brought to St. Anthony's hospital, where she is now confined.

The attending physician states that while Mrs. Foster was terribly burned, she will recover, her wonderful nerve and stamina aiding greatly in the treatment being given by the physician.