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Show THEY STOOD HORRIFIED Spectators Saw a Man Burning at a Great Height Pittsburg. Pa., June 30. Two hundred hun-dred and fifty feet above tho ground, suspended by a ropo that was burning, burn-ing, nnd his clothes blazing from naphtha and carbon oil, Chris Slnkas, a stack painter, 3G years old, mado his way down, hand-under-hand to earth, while a crowd of men stood horrified, at the Westlnghouso Electric Elec-tric & Manufacturing company's plant In East Pittsburg yesterday. He held a ropo In his left hand to rogulatc tho speed of his descent, at the same time using his right hand in an effort to beat out the flames. When Slnkas reached the jground his clothing was almost entirely burned from hid body, he was terribly burned about the right hand and arm, chest and face, and his left hand was raw and bleeding from being torn by the rope as he made the swift descent. Slnkas was painting a smokestack built recently to a new addition to the power house. Before the tar Is applied, a mixture of carlon oil and naphtha Is applied to tho stack to cut off the rust. Slnkas went to the top of tho stack. Before starting to work he lighted a cigarette and tossed tho lighted match, he supposed, to tho ground. Instend the match dropped into a bucket of naphtha and oil. An Instant later an explosion occurred and Sinkas, allaine, mado his sensational sensa-tional trip down tho burning rope. |