Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — WORKMEN BURNED BY ACID [ARTICLE]

WORKMEN BURNED BY ACID

Men Plunge Into Water to Ease Pain and Are Rescued by Companions. New York, Aug. 9.—The bottom of a carboy of nitric acid dropped out while workmen were unloading the fluid from a barge in the East river to a dock. Over a hundred pounds of the acid was splashed over three workmen, who, suffering from the acid burns, ran screaming to the end of the dock and flung themselves into the river. Workmen rescued the fnen from the river and they were taken to a hospital, where it was found that all three were seriously Injured.