Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1910 — A NARROW ESCAPE. [ARTICLE]

A NARROW ESCAPE.

Peter GrCiser Almost Smothered In Grain Bin at B. & H. Elevator. Peter Greiser, one of the night force at the Babcock & Hopkins grain elevator, almost lost his life Friday night by being drawn into a bin of shelled Corn. He had gone down-a ladder into the bin to sweep the sidewalls, standing on the corn while at work and not noticing that he was being drawn down by the suction of corn running out the chute below, until it was too late to save himself.

He was soon covered completely, and there not being any large amount of corn in the bin his body soon stopped up the chute. Harve Moore, who was at work below, noticing that the corn had stopped flowing, first thought the bin was empty/but looking up the chute , saw this not so, and thought he heard a faint, cry. He rushed up to a trap door in the side of the bin which was held shut by the weight of the corn and managed to break it open with his fists, and the corn ran out so that he saw that a man was buried in the bin. Calling for help from the .other workmen all hustled to clear the corn from about the head of' the irm prisoned Greiser, and they shortly had it cleared so he could breathe all right, but it was quite a task to get him loose from the grain, arid a rope was finally placed about his body and he was pulled out bodily. He was covered completely but a few moments, or he would have been smothered, and as it was he had a mighty close call, but except for a bad scare is none the worse for his narrow escape from a horrible death