Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — Boiling Water Scalds Boy. [ARTICLE]

Boiling Water Scalds Boy.

Princeton, Aug. 1. —George Sloan, fifteen years old, son of John Sloan, a farmer, was seriously scalded while working with a threshing crew. He was sitting on the engine when a boiler plug blew out, throwing boiling water on him. He sustained bad burns about the face, neck and breast, and it is feared will not recover.