Durham, Oct. 23 — A negro woman by the name of Della JENKINS, aged about fifty years, met a horrible death in the western part of the city yesterday afternoon. She was burned in a fearful manner at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and death resulted at 5:15 o’clock last night. Her burns were such that a great deal of the skin on her body slipped off before death. The woman was using gasoline in a stove, when there was a loud explosion and she was covered in flames. She ran to a bed, jumped upon it, and covered up. The bed clothes caught fire, this firing the bed, and the house was saved with trouble.

Source: Kinston Free Press, October 24, 1905