Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Merkle, John A. December 22, 1894
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Norfolk Virginian December 23, 1894
BURNED TO DEATH.
An Eighteen Months Old Child Badly Burned and Dies.
Yesterday afternoon about 4:30 o’clock, Mrs. William Merkle, of No. 104 Bermuda 
street, gave her 18 months old child, which was playing on the floor, a 
newspaper to amuse itself with. The little one crawled close to the grate fire 
and the paper became ignited, setting fire to the little one’s clothing.
The child’s screams brought the mother to the room, but when she arrived she was 
too late, though in her heroic efforts to extinguish the flames, she herself was 
badly burned.
The child was burned over the entire body, and though medical assistance was 
summoned, aid did not arrive until the child was dead. No arrangements have been 
made for the funeral.


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