Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1912 — Wheatfield Trustee Badly Burned in Alcohol Explosion. [ARTICLE]

Wheatfield Trustee Badly Burned in Alcohol Explosion.

- Albert S. Keene, trustee of Wheatfield township, was In town today,, attending the monthly meeting of trustees and called at The Republican office. He is recovering from some quite severe burns received in an accident at his store a week ago last Saturday. He was using some wood alcohol to generate his gasoline lights. The cup for the fluid did not contain enough to start the lights and Albert followed the common custom of squirting the wood alcohol from the can to the flame. Suddenly the fluid in the can ignited and an explosion followed and Albert was knocked to the floor. He say that the flames had been communicated to a mattress In his store and that the entire building was in danger and he forgot his own Injuries while fighting the progress of the flames. He soon had them subdued and then found himself quite exhausted and painfully burned. He succeeded in reaching the door of his store and called Alfred Barlow, who got a doctor. Albert was frightfully burned about the face and hands, but none of the burns were very deep and they are now practically healed.