Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1910 — LEG IS BURNED OFF AT KNEE [ARTICLE]

LEG IS BURNED OFF AT KNEE

Red Hot Rod Slipping Off Hook Wrapped About Workman's Le& Anderson, Ind., Aug. 12. —By a red hot rod coiling about him at the rod mill, Matata lanos, a Roumanian, had one leg burned off at the knee and the Other will probably have to be amputated if the man survives. He was employee! in the pit where men wkh hooks grapple the iron rods when they come from the rollers, and one of the rods, slipping from a hook, wrapped about lanos.