Kate Swazel Fatally Burned

Article taken from The Salem Daily News, November 22, 1894

A Third Fatal Burning

Portsmouth, O., Nov. 22 - Mrs. Kate Swazel has been fatally burned by her clothes catching ablaze from an open grate. Her clothes were entirely burned from her before assistance arrived. A chair on which she was sitting was burned to ashes, and the bed upon which she threw herself was also burned. This is the third fatal burning in this city in a week.