Benton County IA Archives News.....Mrs. Sleight is Fatally Burned by Open Gas Jet November 12, 1918
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Vinton Newspaper, November 12, 1918
  Vinton, Nov. 11--Special-F. G. Ray and Mrs. Isadore Shaw were notified 
yesterday that their sister, Mrs. Emma Sleight, was fatally burned at the home 
of another sister, Mrs. Frizzell, at Charleston, W. Va.  Mrs. Sleight's home 
is in Moline, ILL and she had been with her sister only a few weeks, intending 
to remaim during the winter.  Her clothes became ignited from an open gas jet 
and she was burned so badly that she died within a few hours.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Ray and Mrs. Shaw left last night for Moline to attend the funeral services.

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