Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — Killed by Bursting Flywheel. [ARTICLE]

Killed by Bursting Flywheel.

Weukegan, 111., April 23. —Two men were killed, two hurt seriously, anti several others slightly injured at J 1:30 o’clook at night in the plant of the North Shore Electric company at Waukegan. A blaze burned a section of a belt on a huge flywheel, and the wheel flew . from Its bearing. The electri* plant, valued at $135,000, virtually was destroyed, and several other buildings were damaged. The dead: J. H. Jensen, manager of the telephone exchange at Waukegan, hit by piece of wheel, died at hospital an hour later; unidentified man, mutilated beyond recognition, hit by fragment of flying wheel.