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.
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A story about the Amish...that actually involves the Amish. Amazing.
Well that sucketh.
Prayers for her loved ones.
Yeah and an explosion caused by the Amish as well.
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.
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.
Prayers for her family. What a horrible way to go.
I’ve always said housework was dangerous to your health, I’m building proof....
BS, she was working on a belt bomb!
I just throw gasoline on my fire when I’m doing laundry. That really gets it goin’ good.
Let’s hope one of those home remedys was not spreading butter on the burns.
I see the problem.
She used kerosene from forbidden technology.
If only she had used whale oil this would never have happened.
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.
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?
She should have googled how to do laundry safely.
Extremely poor choice.
She should have googled how to do laundry safely.
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.
I saw an Amish man at Hartville Market in an Electric Scooter.
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’’.
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