KEROSENE LAMP CAUSE OF FURTHER INJURY

(By United Press.)

TOCSIN, Ind., Jan. 1--Upsetting a kerosene lamp against curtains at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Miller near here started a fire which interrupted a double funeral and caused injury of a boy just recovering from a broken hip.

After a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miller, who accidentally overturned the lamp, had spread alarm, her parents, and other attending the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kinsey rushed to the home. They found that another daughter, Dorothy, 12, had jerked the curtains down and put out the fire with a bucket of water.

During the excitement, Lloyd Miller, 10, who sustained a broken jip two months ago, leaped from bed fracturing the hip again. He will be bedfast for ten weeks, doctors said.

Decatur Evening Herald, Decatur, IL 1 Jan 1929

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