Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1911 — GAS LINE BROKEN; ONE DEAD. [ARTICLE]

GAS LINE BROKEN; ONE DEAD.

Explosion Results From Thrashing Machine Engine Crushing-Pipe. Vincennes, Ind., July 23.—Phillip Burrell was burned to death and Pickering Mann will die from burns Buffered when a thrasher they were ihoving near Lawrenceville, 111., struck and punctured a 500-pound pressure gas pipe of the Lawrenceville Gas Co. The gas instantly ignited from the firebox of the engine, and thrasher an<J engine were ruined. Burrell fell between the engine and wheel and was incinerated. Mann is barely pliVe. Burrell leaves a widow and a child two days old. •