Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — Young Worker’s Tragic Death. [ARTICLE]

Young Worker’s Tragic Death.

The sweep’s boy—the "ramoneur,” has still to work his tortuous way through the chimneys In France and an accident which has Just occurred at Fleury-sur-Andelles calls attention to the necessity of putting a stop to the practice. A little Savoyard, named Charles Ravolse, fourteen years of age, was sent up the chimney of a baker and at the end of three-quarters of an hour he had not descended. The alarm was given and the boy was perceived blocked In the chimney, which had to be demolished before his dead body could be freed. He was hanging by the neck, having been caught in a portion of the chimney measuring less than six Inches across and asphyxiated.