Posted by old-9 on August 13, 2015 at 16:58:28 from (67.236.118.164):
I found this yesterday, going through mom's house, been cleaning it out. Our local paper always has a "Looking Back" column , years ago?
1912 "One man with his face burned till it looks like a beefsteak seared with a hot iron, his eyes almost blinded,his right leg broken in two places between the hip and knee and the knee cap torn off, and two frightful wounds in groin and left buttock; another man with his right leg broken just above the ankle, and several others with minor burns and other hurts - these are the toll extracted yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the explosion of a traction engine on the Wallace farm eleven miles southwest of town occupied and managed by Con Dwyer and wife. And yet, bad as the situation is, there is much of good fortune that more were not seriously injured, for there were seventeen men working about the boiler when it let go."
This man was my grandfather. Please forgive the "english " I coppied it word for word, back in 1912 they did not write like today. thanks joe
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