Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — BAD ACCIDENT AT McCOYSBURG [ARTICLE]

BAD ACCIDENT AT McCOYSBURG

Roy Bussell Probably Fatally Burned In Starting a Fire. A terrible accident occurred at McCoysburg about 6 o’clock yesterday morning, when 1 Roy Bussell, the rural mail carrier out of that place, was perhaps fatally burned when starting a fire in the cook stove on getting up in the morning. He used a can containing coal oil and gasoline mixed, it is said, and was frightfully burned all over, the body, the can evidentally exploding and covering him with the burning fluid. Some little damage was done to the room by the flames. Mr. Bussell was brought to the hospital as soon .as possible in Wright’s ambulance, which was sent out after him, but he is so frightfully burned that the doctors hold out no hope whatever of his recovery. Mr. Bussell is about 37 years of age and has a wife and four children. He is a son of Charles W. Bussell, now of Hammond, but for many years a well-known resident of Hanging Grove township. He had been mail carrier on the MeCoysburg route ever since the route was established several years ago, and has hosts of friends who will be greatly shocked to learn of the terrible accident which has befell him.