Show LEAPED INTO FURNACE HORRIBLE SUICIDE OF AN UNKNOWN UN-KNOWN MAN He Dives HeadFirst Into a Coko I I Oven at Connellsvillc Pa and is Incinerated Connellsville Pa April 13 Leaping I high Into the alt as an expert diver would in taking a fancy plunge in the water an unknown man committed sui chic thin morning at the foundry works of tho IL C Frick Coke company by diving into a coke oven In less than a I minute what had been a man apparently appar-ently In the full vigor of life had mfn gled with the curling smoke of the ovens distinguished only by its bluish brown color and nauseating odor from the gas smoke of thc burning coal 1 Amore A-more tragic death never occurred In Ibis region Tho cokeworkers saw him only for an Instant as ho prepared for the leap He was wvcll dressed of medium height and weight and smooth shaven For the sllghlest space of time he seemed to pause on tho sloping ground behind the ovens then quick ag a flash ho ran down the slope taking the quick short steps of a trained athlete who gauges them precisely for the jump ho intends taking Eight feet from the oven top the man shot into the air his hands poised above his head in time fashion of a diver and descending swiftly dropped head first Into the trunnel head OL an oven that had burned to the sizzling white heat of coke just before it is I drawn For an instant the body clogged tho trunnel I head and the lugs wriggled as though I a desperate effort was being made to I squirm through and meet death quickly I In the blazing oven pitA pit-A rush was made for the oven by the horrified ovendrawers All there was to show of the man who but a few I seconds before had been in life was u charred mass of flesh not three feet In length There Is nothing about It that could be used as a means of identification identifica-tion It will be burled tomorrow |