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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Sutton, two sons of Mr. Stephen Hall, aged about 21 and 14, suffered severe burns in a fire that ignited their sleeping cabin while tending a distant coalpit on Monday night last week. The older is desperately injured, blinded; the younger less so.
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On Monday night last week the two eldest sons of Mr. Stephen Hall of Sutton, one about 21 the other about 14 years of age, were tending a coalpit, at some distance from their father's. A cabin, covered with combustibles was constructed to secure them from the cold, in which they were sleeping. By some means this took fire and was all in flames, when they awoke. Starting from sleep in surprise, they rose up in the flame, and it was not until after repeated ineffectual attempts, that they were able to remove what secured the entrance, and to extricate themselves from the fire. Burnt in a shocking manner, they had to go 50 or 60 rods to a house, the oldest having his clothes almost entirely burnt from his body, his back badly burnt, his head, so as to be entirely blind, and his hands in such a manner, that the skin and nails were mostly off, and hanging loose: His case appears desperate. The situation of the youngest is more favorable.
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Sutton
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Monday Night Last Week
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oldest son: clothes almost entirely burnt off, back badly burnt, head burnt causing blindness, hands with skin and nails mostly off and hanging loose; case appears desperate. youngest son: burnt in a shocking manner but situation more favorable.
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The two eldest sons of Mr. Stephen Hall of Sutton, one about 21 and the other about 14 years of age, were tending a coalpit at some distance from their father's. A cabin covered with combustibles was constructed to secure them from the cold, in which they were sleeping. By some means this took fire and was all in flames when they awoke. Starting from sleep in surprise, they rose up in the flame, and after repeated ineffectual attempts, they removed what secured the entrance and extricated themselves from the fire. Burnt in a shocking manner, they went 50 or 60 rods to a house.