McDaniel - Virgil - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Last Friday at 10 o’clock a.m. the two year old son of Fred McDaniel and wife was scalded terribly at their home on the corner of Grant Avenue and North Street. The child was in the kitchen with its mother, who was preparing to wash some clothes, and was playing about on the floor. Mrs. McDaniel placed a zinc washtub on a low stool and into this poured a quantity of scalding water. She then left the room for a minute and in her absence the child toddled up to the tub and reaching up, managed in some way to pull it over. The fiery content was emptied over the child’s head, breast, back and arms. With terrible cries of agony it rolled on the floor and the agonized mother rushed to its relief. The neighbors hurried in and Dr. Niven was hastily called. He dressed the wounds but offered little hope of the child’s recovery. He thinks that the chances are all against it living as the burns are deep and many. The little one suffers greatly. Fred McDaniel, the father, is a son of Policeman Joseph McDaniel.  -s – note Virgil died on the 27th