McClellan
Young Mother Suffers Burns
McKinney - "I thank God that it wasn't worse," a 23-year-old mother of two children said Tuesday at her home, where she was resting after treatment of severe burns suffered about 4:30 p.m. Monday when a gas oven she was lighting at the home exploded.
She is Mrs. Christine McClellan, wife of Jame McClellan, 507 N. Kentucky St. The hair was burned from the front part of her head, and she suffered first and second degree burns about the face, hands, arms and legs.
There was no damage to the house by fire, according to police and firemen who were called to the scene.
The housecoat the woman was wearing caught fire. She ripped it from her body and put out the fire on the rest of her clothing. Following treatment at a McKinney hospital, she was released.
After beating out the flames, Mrs. McClellan went to the adjoining apartment of Veda E. Massey and telephoned for help. She was taken to the hospital in the Harris-Horn ambulance.
At the time of the explosion Mrs. McClellan's two children, Rena, 4, and Kathy, 2, were playing in the front room of her apartment.
McKinney - "I thank God that it wasn't worse," a 23-year-old mother of two children said Tuesday at her home, where she was resting after treatment of severe burns suffered about 4:30 p.m. Monday when a gas oven she was lighting at the home exploded.
She is Mrs. Christine McClellan, wife of Jame McClellan, 507 N. Kentucky St. The hair was burned from the front part of her head, and she suffered first and second degree burns about the face, hands, arms and legs.
There was no damage to the house by fire, according to police and firemen who were called to the scene.
The housecoat the woman was wearing caught fire. She ripped it from her body and put out the fire on the rest of her clothing. Following treatment at a McKinney hospital, she was released.
After beating out the flames, Mrs. McClellan went to the adjoining apartment of Veda E. Massey and telephoned for help. She was taken to the hospital in the Harris-Horn ambulance.
At the time of the explosion Mrs. McClellan's two children, Rena, 4, and Kathy, 2, were playing in the front room of her apartment.