Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

HORROR AT NARDIN
Mrs. Lewis T. Chambers and Baby the Victims
OF A GASOLINE ACCIDENT
Bodies Were Taken to Wakita for Burial

Another distressing accident from the use of gasoline has occurred in this county, following closely upon the terrible calamity which occurred at Braman a couple of weeks ago. This time the victims are Mrs. Lewis T. Chambers, wife of the cashier of the Nardin State Bank at Nardin, and her baby. The horror occurred last Friday.
The accident was caused about 9:30 a.m. by a leak of one of the burners of the gasoline stove which Mrs. Chambers was using to heat irons for ironing. The drippings were caught in a pan, and in some way became ignited. Mrs. Chambers undertook to carry the stove out of doors in order to save the house. Her clothing caught fire and she dropped the stove close to a baby carriage in which was the baby, and the flames were communicated to it. Mrs. Chambers was a flame from head to foot and ran across the street to a neighbors calling for help. When assistance reached her, her clothing was completely burned off, but she was still conscious and realized that she could not recover. She was carried into the neighbors house and, notwithstanding her agony, told how the accident happened as above. She was carefully attended and her sufferings relieved as much as possible until death came about 2:30 in the afternoon. The baby was so badly burned that it died the same evening.
Mr. Chambers was not at home at the time of the accident, having gone with his little son in the country some seven miles on business. He was summoned at once and reached home before his wife and child expired. The sympathy of the people of the entire country goes out to him in his terrible affliction.
The remains of Mrs. Chambers and the baby were taken to Wakita, Okla., which was the former home of Mrs. Chambers, and where her parents and family reside. Mrs. Chambers’ maiden name was Elsie McCray, and she was a sister to Mrs. J. B. Butler, of Blackwell, Mr. And Mrs. Butler and other relatives and friends of the family accompanied the remains to Wakita, Saturday.