A Brave Mother.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 369, 26 October 1889, Page 3

A Brave Mother.

A latb San Francisco paper gives an account of a sad accident. At eight o'clock one evening a Mrs Marx Gaba, with her three children, was seated at a table in her residence, on Willow Avenue, An infant oi two months lay in a cradle in the same room, while two other children, boys, had just been sent out on an errand, On the table stood a lighted kerosene lamp. The youngest of the three children at the table was Moses, aged two years. He was in high glee, and vary playful. Suddenly he grasped the tablecloth, and drew it towards him. The lamp was drawn along with the cloth, and fell into the child’s lap, where it exploded in an instant, covering the poor little fellow with tha burning oil. The mother grasped the burning child in her arms and at once the flames were communicated to her clothes. She ran shrieking about the room for a few minutes, and finally made her way to the back yard, where she fell to the ground writhing in agony, but still clasping the child in her arms. There she was found by the neighbors, who had been attracted by the noise, and the flames were extinguished, but not before nearly every shred of clothes had been burned from her body. Physicians were at once called and attended the sufferers, but it was evident at the outset that they were injured beyond recovery. Little Moses died at midnight, and Mrs Gaba passed away a few (hours later. While the unhappy mother was trying to save her child, tho flames communicated to the furniture in the room, and the other children, Minnie and Rosa, aged six and four, were severely burned. The infant was also nearly suffocated in its cradle. The front door of the house was fastened, and those who came to the rescue of the unfortunate family had the greatest diffiouly in gaining an entrance. They succeeded, however, in extinguishing the flames before the arrival of the engine, and before much damage had been done. Marx Gaba, the father of the family, had left home only a short time previously on an errand, and was almost prostrated with grief when he returned and learned of the dreadful occurrence.