After suffering excruciating agony for five hours Sunday night, Miss Emma KALKBRENNER succumbed to burns at her home in St. Bernard.  She was walking upstairs from the cellar about 6 o'clock in the evening when gasoline in a can which she carried ignited a match.  In a trice she was enveloped in flame and fled hurriedly to the yard.  Her cried for aid were heard by relatives who tried to extinguish the blaze, but before they succeeded the young woman had been fatally burned.  She died at 11 o'clock. The unfortunate young woman was twenty-three years of age and lived at 205 Ross avenue, St. Bernard.  Miss KALKBRENNER was preparing supper when she was fatally burned.  She lived with her mother, a widow and three young brothers.  She had prepared food and intended to cook it on the gasoline stove.  She went into the cellar and got the gasoline and started upstairs to the kitchen.  On the way the gasoline ignited and her death followed.  All the clothing was burned from her body.  Dr. TOPIE of Reading road was summoned but was unable to save Miss KALKBRENNER, although he worked with her for hours.  The agonizing cries of the victim in flames could be heard for several blocks.  Linseed oil and lime water were used in great quantities, but these antidotes for burns did little good.  The mother of the dead girl is prostrated with grief over the sad tragedy.

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