DeKalb County ALGENWEB
The Fort Payne Journal
Fort Payne, Alabama
Wednesday, December 8, 1897
Page 1

HORRIBLE INDEED.

A Young Woman Burned to Death in the Heart of Town.

Her Clothing Caught on Fire and She Rushed Into the Yard Where They Burned From Her, Piece by Piece.

In the very heart of the city, on Monday morning, just at day break, occurred an accident, the like of which is enough to chill the marrow in one's bones.

With heart-rending screams, a young woman rushed from the home of Dr. W. M. Green, on Ford street, and made more vivid by the darkness of the hour, she was seen to rush from place to place with fiery flames reaching high above her. Particles of clothing as they would burn from her body would drop here and there in the yard.

Frantic with frenzy, she rushed to a small tub partially filled with water and succeeded in extinguishing the seething flames around her body grew all the fiercer and it was in this condition that Mr. S. R. Dobbs and his brother, Mart, found her and quickly smothered the flames. She was carried in the house and her suffering was terrible until about 7 o'clock in the evening when death, welcome messenger, relieved her.

It seems that the young woman, Sallie Brandon, was staying with her sister, Mrs. W. M. Green, whose baby was sick. She was up with the child almost the entire night and had at last got the little one quiet, laid it on the bed and had sit down in a chair in front of an open fire and fell asleep and when she awoke her clothing were in flames.

Her remains were carried to Brandon, five miles south of this city, yesterday morning and interred.

Dr. W. M. Green was slightly burned in aiding in extinguishing the furious flames, but no seriously.