San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Obituaries.....Mineti, Rose Tartaglia August 26, 1922
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The San Luis Obispo Tribune (Weekly), San Luis Obispo, California, 29 August 1922, page 1, column 5
MRS. MINETTI RECEIVES FATAL BURNS (From Saturday’s Dally)

Mrs. Thomas Minetti of 1212 Marsh street received fatal burns shortly after 
12:30 o’clock this morning when a gas heater exploded in the kitchen of her 
home. Mrs. Minetti was taken to the San Luis Sanitarium and given medical 
treatment, but at 1:10 this morning Dr. H. A. Gallup stated that there was 
practically no hope for her recovery. 

Just how the accident occurred remains a mystery. Mrs. Minetti was sleeping in 
one room of the house with her four year old son, while Mr. Minetti and the 
baby were sleeping in another room. Mr. Minetti was awakened by the explosion, 
but is unable to tell how it occurred or for what reason Mrs. Minetti 
attempted to light the heater. It is supposed that Mrs. Minetti may have gone 
into the kitchen for some purpose and have lighted a match, and that gas from 
the heater which had filled the closed room exploded. Neighbors who were 
awakened by the explosion and the screams of Mrs. Minetti saw her running from 
the house with her nightgown in flumes. J. G. Canu and other neighbors 
smothered the flames with blankets and Mrs. Minetti was taken to the hospital, 
where it was found that practically all the skin on her body had been burned 
and that she could not live. 

The explosion was heard for three blocks, and its force was sufficient to 
shake houses a block and a half away. The plaster was shaken from some of the 
walls of the Minetti home. 

Mr. and Mrs. Minetti came to this city from Cayucos, where the relatives of 
both reside. Mrs. Thomas Minetti, who was badly burned early yesterday morning 
by a gas explosion at her home, 1212 March street, passed away about 4:30 
o'clock the same morning. 

At an inquest held yesterday a coroner’s Jury gave a verdict that Mrs. Minetti 
had come to her death as the result of an accidental explosion of a gas stove. 
The exact details of the accident could not be learned, as no one in the 
Minetti household was awake at the time of the accident besides Mrs. Minetti. 
At the inquest it was related that Mr. and Mrs. Minetti returned to their home 
about 9 o’clock Friday evening, after visiting Mrs. Minetti's parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. P. Tartaglia, of Cayucos. Mrs. Minetti and her three-year-old son went to 
bed in one room, while Mr. Minetti and the baby occupied the adjoining room. 
During the night Mrs. Minetti got up and for some reason went to the kitchen 
and struck a match. The room was filled with gas from the stove or healer, and 
the explosion was instantaneous. She ran from the house, a living torch, and 
neighbors smothered her flaming nightclothes with blankets. She was taken to 
the San Luis Sanitarium, but it was found that practically all the skin on her 
body had been burned and there was no hope of recovery. She passed away a few 
hours later. The inquest was conducted by Acting Coroner Wm. Mallagh. 

Mrs. Minetti is survived by her husband and two small children, her parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. P. Tartaglia, of Cayucos; three sisters, Mrs. E. A Bassi of 
Patterson, Mrs. John Swain of Long Beach and Miss Edith Tartaglta of San Luis 
Obispo, and the following brothers: G. G. Tartaglia, Americo Tartaglia. Peter 
Tartaglia and Dario Tartaglia, ail of Cayucos. Funeral announcement will be 
made upon receipt of word from relatives.


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