Some early accounts blamed a gas lamp, as people tried to make sense of the shocking tragedy amid old and new technology, but the church was not equipped with gas.
Her slide show included her negative comments about black women wearing natural hairstyles in the workplace, calling them shocking, inappropriate, and political.
They live hand-to-mouth, always just a step or two ahead of destitution, and their interpersonal relationships are unorthodox and shocking by the standards of their society and times.