Mary Oliver
Kentucky Post, Monday, 31 August 1903, page 5
Mary Oliver, 35, wife of Thomas Oliver of 826 Orchard Street, Newport, was fatally burned Sunday afternoon at 4:30. She was drying some clothes over a gasoline stone when the ignited. Her dress caught fire and in an instant she was enveloped in flames. She ran from the house into the yard and the wind made the flamers worse.
Her cries attracted the attention of several neighbors who hastened to her aid and succeeded in putting out the flames with the aid of quilts. Dr. F E Locke, who attended her discovered she was terribly burned about the hips and abdomen and ordered her taken to the Speers Hospital by Patrolman Benke. She died there later.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 1 September 1903,
page 9
Mary Oliver, colored, who was horribly burned at her home on
Orchard street Newport, in a gasoline explosion Sunday, died yesterday morning at Speers
Hospital.