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Show oo MEN BURNED TO DEATH AT ELY Ely. Nev . Oct. 20 Two men were I burned to death and four others re-ceived re-ceived minor injuries at McGill to-da) to-da) when an explosion occurred In tne smokestack ol the Steptoe smelter The men were engaged in lining the interior of a new smokestack smoke-stack with an acid-resisting compound. com-pound. A hose connecting with a g.isnlme torch which they were using became disconnected and the explosion explo-sion followed. A. A. Ellis and a Grefk laborer were on a platform iu the stack 16 feel from the ground :nd were literally cooked to death. Although Al-though the other men were within the stack, they escaped with slight Injuries. |