Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1905 — FACED DEATH HEROICALLY [ARTICLE]

FACED DEATH HEROICALLY

While Relng Mowly Cooked with Steam He Direct* 111* Rescuer*—Die* at the End. Bt. Croix 'Falls, Wis., June 30. Slowly ladling to death from scalding steam, which was enveloping him, while pinioned under an overturned stationary engine, sixty feet lu air, Hans Thompson, with nerve qf steel calmly directed tiie movements of a gang of workmen who were frantically endeavoring to extricate him. He was removed from beneath the engine after tiie men had worked like Trojans for nearly two hours, but as he was literally cooked to death by tiie steam ilia death resulted at bls home nearby shortly afterwards. The engine was overturned by one of tho hoisting ropes becoming entangled lu vnderbrush in a ravine.