Logan Republican | 1904-09-24 | Page 2 | Cremated Alive

CREMATED ALIVE. Horrible Death of a Nevada Painter, Who Was Literally Roatted Alive. A special dispatch from lleno, No-vado, No-vado, says John Stafford, an employee of the Standard Mining company, located lo-cated near Urodle, Just over tho Nevada Ne-vada lino, met a frightful death. Stafford Staf-ford was literally toasted to death In tho interior of a big pipe line Though living when icnehed ho died somo tlmo afterward nfter suffering terrlblo agony. Tho young man wns engaged In painting tho Interior of a big plpo lino being constructed by the company. Ho was using a pnraflne paint. In somo mnnner tho Inllammablo fluid caught flro. The Interior was soon n mass of llamos. Fellow employees wcro at first attracted to tho scene by tho Bmok, and later by the young man's cries. It wos found necessary to burst tho plpo before ho could bo rescued frota the blazing furnace