Appears in the Terrell Times-Star, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas, 13 December 1890...

Horrible Accident

Paris, Texas, December 9 - A horrible accident occurred at Detroit, seventeen miles east of here, yesterday afternoon. It seems that Mrs. M. H. Custer, wafie of the editor of the New Era, was packing a trunk near the fire and had her back to it, when her dress became ignited and was soon in flames. Realizing her peril she told her children, who were very small to run out in the yard and call for assistance. The unfortunate woman then sprang in bed and covered up closely, but the flames caught the bed clothes and she ran from the house and fell in the yard, where her clothing burned from her body, cooking the flesh until portions of it fell from the bones. She lived several hours, seemingly insensible to all pain, though rational to the last.