Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1920 — SUFFERS PECULIAR ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

SUFFERS PECULIAR ACCIDENT

John Eger met with a very peculiar accident Saturday night, the like of which The Democrat never remembers having heard of before. Mr. Eger was wearing a pair of glasses with celluloid rims, which are so common nowadays, and after going home from the store he pulled his easy chair up to the light, selected a fresh cigar and expected to enjoy a smoke and peruse his newspaper. He struck a match and held it up to light the cigar, but must have got the match pretty close to the frames of his glasses, for with a puff they ignited and blazed up about his face. Before he could yank them off his face the skin about one eye was burned to a blister, and he looked Sunday like the victim of a gasoline explosion.