OBIT: Mrs. Phares EABY, 1898, Leaman Place, Lancaster County, PA

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A WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.

A Fearful Accident Near Leaman Place on Saturday.

Mrs. Phares Eaby, wife of the miller of J. C. Snavely's Osceolo Mills, near 
Leaman Place, met a horrible death from burning on Saturday morning.

Mrs. Eaby was working among her chickens, when the lamp in a brooder exploded, 
setting fire to her dress.  She was alone at the time, and unable to 
successfully fight the flames, and being crazed by the agony of the torture, the 
woman ran screaming into the yard, a veritable pillar of fire.  Her husband 
heard her cries, and finally reached her with a piece of carpet and smothered 
the remaining flames.  His rescue came too late, as the burns were so serious 
that the woman died four hours after the occurrence.  Besides her husband, she 
is survived by one child.

Mrs. Eaby was well known and respected, and her tragic and sudden death is a 
shock to the entire community.

Ephrata Reporter, Ephrata, PA, Friday Evening, April 15, 1898