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Show DEADLYACID FLIES WHEN LINE BREAKS Under Pressure Poison ia Hurled in Faces of Provo Men While attempting to remove a valve from a pipe line carrying sul-pluu-ic acid from a large tank to the acid suturutors in the by-products building at the Columbia Steel company's com-pany's plant at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, four men suffered serious sulphuric acid burns. The injured are Harvey Higgins, Ileindsclman apartments, Lawrence Lisonhee, 2S4 North Fifth West street, Oliver J. Pearson, 205 North Fifth West street and Leslie King. All four men are reported to have suffered serious burns about the face when the valve was released from the pipe line which contained a heavy air pressure to carry the acid into the saturators. The men were given first aid in the office at the steel plant and were then brought to the Aird hospital, where their wounds were dressed. Three of the men were then taken to their homes. Higgins, w:ho was more seriously burned than the others is still at the hospital. It was first thought that he would lose his eyesight by the burning acid, but a closer examination led attending attend-ing physicians to believe that his sight might be restored. Sulphuric acid is used extensively in the manufacture of steel and when mixed with water it develops great heat, so that when the valve was suddenly released from the line under pressure, the acid flew in all directions and cut deep wounds into tlie faces of the men who were in close proximity at the time. It is said that Mr. Higgins and Mr. Lisonbee suffered deeper burns than the other two men and they will in all probability be laid up for several weeks. |