Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1909 — CLOSE CALL FROM A HORRIBLE DEATH. [ARTICLE]

CLOSE CALL FROM A HORRIBLE DEATH.

Mr. and Mrs. Louie Fendig of Jacksonville, Fla., are here for a visit with relatives- Louie looks like he had just emerged from the exit end of a wind stacker of a threshing machine, and hadn’t missed a solitary' cylinder tooth in coming through, caused from the bursting of a ladle of hot metal in an iron foundry which he and some friends visited last week in Birmingham, Ala. The guide who was conducting them through the plant was killed and two of the workmen badly burned, and all of Louie’s party ■&ere more or less singed, one so badly that it was thought he would die. Louie himself was so badly seared about the face and hands that he had to lay over a couple of days before resuming his journey.