Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — EDITOR MAY LOSE EYESIGHT [ARTICLE]

EDITOR MAY LOSE EYESIGHT

Gasoline Explodes While He Attempts to Clean Stovepipe. Lafayette, Ind„ Jan. 5. —• John A. Metzger, editor and publisher of the Brookston Reporter, may lose his sight as the result of an nocldent. He was cleaning the stove tn his office and was trying to blow the soot from the pipe by putlipg small quantities of* gasoline in the stove He placed too much gasoline In at one time and the expLosion that followed blew the burning fluid out of the stove onto his clothes and head. The fire In the office was extinguished by two office girls, His eyes are swollen shut and iis face and head severely burned.