Show A boy horribly burned pa march 29 john harris a thirteen year old boy was riding on a larry used to charge the coke ovens with at the percy coke works yesterday with a companion the larry passed directly over to the coke oven month and when it stopped running harris supposed they were past all the ovens and stepped off the rear end throwing the larry directly in the coke oven which was blazing six feet above the mouth the boy sank his armpit and was completely enveloped ia a mass of red hot coal ia the oven the dovec of the larry hastened to the boys help getting him out in ten seconds after he fell in but in this short time harris was burned all over great flakes of skin falling off while his clothing was charred into a tinder all over him and scarcely a spot on him that was not scorched and burned although suffering horribly the boy is still living this afternoon with no hopes of recovery |