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Note: Killed by firework "spit devil" as a young child. Not noted in the 1900 census.
Mother and Child Burned
Mrs. Fisher Injured in Trying to Put Out the Flames which Enveloped her Little Daughter
Alice Fisher, the four-year-old daughter of Mrs. Frances Fisher, of 2105 East Madison street, was severely burned on the head and body yesterday by her clothing taking fire while she was playing with matches and firecrackers at the corner of Madison and Chester street, near her home.
When the child found her clothes had caught fire she screamed and ran to the pavement in front of her home, where she was overcome and fell just as her mother came out of the house. The mother tried to extinguish the flames, but they spread to her own clothing.
While the mother was struggling to save her child a man who had been attracted by the blaze when he was two squares away ran up, threw his coat around the child and smothered the flames. He then secured a blanket from the house and took the child to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. The mother followed, and both are now under treatment at the hospital.
The child’s condition is critical, but the mother’s wounds, though painful, are slight.
The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland. Tuesday, June 16, 1896, p 10.
Little Alice Fisher Dead
Alice Fisher, the four-year old daughter of Mrs. Frances Fisher of 2105 East Madison street, who was burned while playing with matches and firecrackers at the corner of Madison and Chester streets Monday, died yesterday at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from the effects of her injuries. The mother of the child, who was burned about the hands in her efforts to extinguish the flames, is getting along well, although her wounds are painful.
The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland. Wednesday, June 17, 1896, p. 10
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