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Show PAINTER'S CLOTHING TARES FIRE AT-' WL HEIGHT PJTTSBURG, Pa., June 30. Two bund red u 4 fifty f ret bo v e the ground, suspended by a rope that was burning, aud hia elotbes blazing from naphtha and earbon oil, Chris Sinkai, a stack paiuter, 36 year old, made hi way down, hand-under hand to earth, while a crowd of men stood horrified, at the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Manu-facturing company 'a plant in Kant Pittsburg yesterday. He held a rope in hia left hand to regulate the speed of his descent, at the same time using his right hand in an effort to beat out the flames. When Sinkaa reached the ground" bis clothing was almost entirely burned from bis body, he was terribly burned about the right hand and arm, chest ud face, and hia left hand was raw and bleeding from being torn by the rope aa he made the swift descent. Sinkaa was painting a smokestack built recently to a new addition to the powerhouse. Before the tar is applied, a mixture of earbon oil and naphtha is applied to the stack to rut off the rust. Sinkas went to the top of the stack. Before starting to work he lighted a cigarette and tossed the lighted match, as he supposed, to the ground. Instead the match dropped into a bucket of naphtha and oil. An instsnt Isater an explosion occurred and Sinkas, Sin-kas, aflame, made his sensational trip down the burning rope. |