Uintah Chieftain | 1909-06-17 | Page 2 | Blast Furnace Explodes |

Type	issue
Date	1909-06-17
Paper	Uintah Chieftain
Language	eng
City	Myton
County	Duchesne
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Blast Furnace Explodes
Type	article
Date	1909-06-17
Paper	Uintah Chieftain
Language	eng
City	Myton
County	Duchesne
Page	2
OCR Text	Show I BLAST FURNACE EXPLODES Six Men Burned to a Crisp and a Score of Ot Others ers Injured Wheeling W. W Va Six Six men were killed and fourteen seriously Injured in an explosion Wednesday night of ofa of ofa ofa a blast furnace at the Wheeling Steel Iron company The six men who were killed 1 were burned to a crisp Four men were fatally Injured Fifty workmen were gathered about the furnace making re ready dy to drill in for the 9 o'clock cast when without a moments warning there was a terrific roar and great masses of molten Iron spurted from the furnace sweeping down upon the workmen Twenty or more were caught in the rush Arms and legs were burned off and some were were showered showered show show- ered from head to to foot with white- white hot metal All the men were foreigners The cause of the accident has not been definitely decided
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