Saturday morning about 5:30 o’clock George Vinson, a colored man of Wilson’s Mills, was seriously burned while making a fire. In an effort to get the fire started, according to reports received here, he decided to pour gasoline on the wood which was slow in beginning to burn. When he began pouring the gasoline from the two-gallon can, the flame blazed up and enveloped him from his waist up. He tore his clothing off in an effort to extinguish the flames but he was seriously burned about the body. At last report he was still living but was in a critical condition. He is about 50 years of age.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, Oct. 13, 1925
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