Emery County Progress | 1902-05-10 | Page 2 | Men Are Caught in a Torrent of Molten Metal

men are caught in a torrent of molten biedal five men were killed one fatally in aured and two others terribly burned by being caught in a torrent of molten metal in an open hearth pit at the pennsylvania steel works steelton near hornsburg Harns burg all of the men were ans I 1 hey were at work in a pit behind the chokers when the iron ore boiled over or the furnace burned out and the entire pit was turner into a pool of fire the pit boss charles W lockett gave a cry of warning as the iron commenced to flow into the pit three of the laborers heeded his cry and escaped fatal in jury the others evidently thinking that the overflow was a slight one s enlar to those which occur frequent ly at the furnaces pressed aga ast the tide of the pit and were caught in the awful flood