Cook County IL Archives News.....Aged Couple Badly Burned [ Canary ] May 18, 1906
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Cook County Herald [Arlington Heights IL] May 18, 1906
Lamp Explodes in Home and Blazing Oil Ignites Clothing

Patrick Canary, 60 years old, and his wife, about the same age, were severely 
burned by the explosion of a lamp in their home in Chicago Lawn. Both are now 
at the Englewood Union hospital and physicians say Mrs. Canary probably will 
die. Canary is employed as a flagman and with his wife has for many years 
lived on the second floor of a frame dwelling at Sixty-third and Leavitt 
streets. Mrs. Canary had retired shortly before 10 o'clock and Canary was on 
his way to the bedroom carrying a lighted lamp, when it exploded, throwing the 
blazing oil on the bed clothing. Before Mrs. Canary was able to reach a place 
of safety her nightrobe caught fire. Canary attempted to rescue his wife and 
his clothing caught fire. Both were unconscious when members of engine company 
No. 64 arrived.

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