Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Marie Mosely, 8, Burned to Death, Nov. 22, 1922

Eight Year Old Girl Burned to Death Here

Marie Mosely, eight-year-old negro girl, was burned to death yesterday when her clothes became ignited from a stove in her home, 601 Nixon street. She died a few minutes after the accident.

According to reports of the affair, the child was playing about the stove when her clothes became ignited, spreading with such rapidity she was fatally burned before the blaze could be extinguished.

From page 2 of the Wilmington Morning Star, Nov. 22, 1922

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