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Indiana Co. Amish Woman Dies After Laundry Accident
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/06/02/indiana-co-amish-woman-killed-in-laundry-accident/ ^ | 6/3/2011 | CBS

Posted on 06/03/2011 7:36:51 AM PDT by Morgana

SMICKSBURG (KDKA) — An Amish woman from Indiana County died this week after an accident while she was doing laundry.

Ella Miller, 32, was doing laundry in a pot over an open flame early Monday morning.

State police say she threw some kerosene on the fire in an attempt to intensify the heat, but that caused an explosion which caught her clothing on fire.

Miller suffered first, second and third degree burns. At her request, she was treated with home remedies by family and neighbors.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburgh.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: accident; amish; death; weloveamish
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1 posted on 06/03/2011 7:36:54 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

A story about the Amish...that actually involves the Amish. Amazing.


2 posted on 06/03/2011 7:39:41 AM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: Morgana

Well that sucketh.

Prayers for her loved ones.


3 posted on 06/03/2011 7:40:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: RichInOC

Yeah and an explosion caused by the Amish as well.


4 posted on 06/03/2011 7:43:36 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Morgana

What is really sad is that this woman wasn’t treated medically. She was treated with “home remedies” and died from the infection from the burns. I am sure some “elder” refused the “English” medicine for her. Now, her husband is left with six children and no Mom.


5 posted on 06/03/2011 7:44:09 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: Morgana
she threw some kerosene on the fire in an attempt to intensify the heat

What could possibly go wrong? Prayers for her but surely she knew better.

We were at a park and were watching some drunks trying to bbq. You just knew it was coming and sure enough one grabs the lighter fluid and boom! You also know what they used to try to put the flames out.

6 posted on 06/03/2011 7:44:55 AM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Morgana
I grew up about 15-20 miles from Smicksburg. Neat little community, where the Amish sell a number of their wares to the 'English'.

Prayers for her family. What a horrible way to go.

7 posted on 06/03/2011 7:46:53 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Morgana

I’ve always said housework was dangerous to your health, I’m building proof....


8 posted on 06/03/2011 7:48:50 AM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas, Rosie ODonnell, Maureen Dowd, Medea Benjamin - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: RichInOC

BS, she was working on a belt bomb!


9 posted on 06/03/2011 7:50:42 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Morgana

I just throw gasoline on my fire when I’m doing laundry. That really gets it goin’ good.


10 posted on 06/03/2011 8:01:18 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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To: Morgana

Let’s hope one of those home remedys was not spreading butter on the burns.


11 posted on 06/03/2011 8:03:43 AM PDT by vwbug
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To: Morgana

I see the problem.

She used kerosene from forbidden technology.

If only she had used whale oil this would never have happened.


12 posted on 06/03/2011 8:04:26 AM PDT by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Back in the 40s, my FIL’s first wife had a pot of gasoline on the top of the coal stove with work clothes in it. A friend came by and tried to tell her it was dangerous, and when she wouldn’t remove it, the friend took the two toddlers home with her.

The house burned to the ground with the woman in it.


13 posted on 06/03/2011 8:07:10 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Why do people try to "out-nice" Jesus?)
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To: Morgana

I used to live among the Amish, used to get stuck in Amish gridlock when the horses wouldn’t back up out of an intersection. I’ve often wondered how the Amish draw their lines of technology. Why is using kerosene okay, but driving a car not okay? Aren’t the wheels on their wagons technology? What about the steel in their tools? Do they just make up their rules about technology as they go along?


14 posted on 06/03/2011 8:21:32 AM PDT by duckworth (Perhaps instant karma's going to get you. Perhaps not.)
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She should have googled how to do laundry safely.


15 posted on 06/03/2011 8:22:17 AM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Morgana
At her request, she was treated with home remedies by family and neighbors.

Extremely poor choice.

16 posted on 06/03/2011 8:32:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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She should have googled how to do laundry safely.


17 posted on 06/03/2011 8:35:35 AM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Morgana

I live near Amish country and have seen them doing their laundry this way in the dead of winter on snow pack, it always amazes me.


18 posted on 06/03/2011 8:36:08 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: duckworth

I saw an Amish man at Hartville Market in an Electric Scooter.


19 posted on 06/03/2011 8:41:43 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: duckworth

Call it “Amish socialism’’. They live as they want but when they need the “English’’ technology, well it’s just help yourself,’’ you “English’’ owe us’’.


20 posted on 06/03/2011 9:15:40 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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