Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1915 — BLOW TORCH EXPLODES [ARTICLE]

BLOW TORCH EXPLODES

Burning High School Teacher and Student About Face and Hands. While pumping up a lighted gaso, line ,blow-torch in the high school laboratory Thursday forenoon, the bottom blew out of the torch and Mr. Coe, biology teacher, who was pumping up the torch, was considerably burned about the ‘hands and face, and Leon Smith, a student, who was standing several feet away, was also burned quite badly about the face and hands, especially the former, the force of the blaze being directed toward him when the torch blew up. No serious results are expected to follow, and both teacher and student will be all right in a few days.