Terrible Accident Near Ray
Waxahachie Enterprise, Aug. 16, 1889
Ray is a community five or six miles southeast of Waxashachie.
Mrs. J. L. Patton, who had been suffering from chills and fever for
some time, got out of bed to start a fire in the kitchen stove. Her sister,
Miss Daniels, not knowing the fire had been started, came in to cook
supper and poured oil into the stove from a nearly full five gallon can.
The can exploded filling the entire room with flames of burning oil
- Miss Daniels being a victim of the flames. Mrs Patton was taken to
a neighbor's house, but her recovery is doubtful.
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