Gertie Kirkland
THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE
FRIDAY , MARCH 5 , 1915
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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GIRL FATALLY BURNED WHILE FRYING SUPPER
(RECTOR VITASCOPE)
GERTIE KIRKLAND , 14 YEARS OLD , AND DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. DAVE KIRKLAND , RESIDING IN KNOB TOWNSHIP ,WAS FATALLY BURNED AT THE FAMILY HOME FRIDAY EVENING.
SHE WAS COOKING SUPPER , AND AT THE TIME FRYING EGGS FOR THE SMALLER CHILDREN , WHEN , HER DRESS BECAME IGNITED FROM THE STOVE .
GERTIE RAN INTO THE YARD , AND IN HER FRIGHT , STARTED FOR THE FIELD WHERE HER PARENTS WERE AT WORK IN THE CLEARING. THE SLIGHT BREEZE ONLY FANNED THE FLAMES TO A GREATER ENORMITY AND JUST AS SHE APPEARED IN SIGHT OF HELP , THE FLAMES ENVELOPED HER AND SHE SANK TO THE GROUND.
SHE DIED IN THE EARLY PART OF THE NIGHT AND WAS BURIED THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY.